Creativity, uninhibited.

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

– Maya Angelou

Let the deadline of death drive you.

Create until your last breath.

Let your last spark of life go into your work.

Die empty, so death takes only a corpse.

Derek Sivers • Here’s how to live: Create. | Derek Sivers

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.

– Mary Lou Cook

Which would you rather be?

Someone who hasn’t created anything in years because you’re so busy consuming?

Or someone who hasn’t consumed anything in years because you’re so busy creating?

Derek Sivers • Here’s how to live: Create. | Derek Sivers

Pay attention to your production/consumption balance. If you’re only consuming and not producing, fix that.

nabeelqu.co • Nabeel S. Qureshi

Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. It has nothing to do with fixing things. It has nothing to do with standards. Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move ahead. It is a loop—an obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get stuck in the details of what you are writing or painting or making and to lose sight

“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.” - Mary Oliver

Dan • Tweet

Try to experience everything as if for the first time. If you grew up in a landlocked town that you never left, the first time you traveled and saw the ocean would likely be a dramatic, awe-inspiring experience. If you spent your whole life living near the ocean, your experience of it would almost certainly be less dramatic.

Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Suspend all judgment when creating the first draft.

Just get to the end.

It’s better to create something bad than nothing at all.

You can improve something bad.

You can’t improve nothing.