Creativity, uninhibited.
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.
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.
Derek Sivers • Here’s how to live: Create. | Derek Sivers
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When you love the spotlight more than the music, reconsider your path.
Unmistakable Creative • 46 Reflections on a Life Half Over
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It’s impossible to imitate another artist’s point of view. We can only swim in the same waters. So feel free to copy the works that inspire you on the road to finding your own voice. It’s a time-tested tradition.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
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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?
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
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He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.
– Jean-Luc Godard
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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
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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
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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.
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
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