current motivations
You will break through overtime if you are patient and make good quality stuff overtime — Susan Werner on “50 Fires” podcast
she also said “a secret in to life in the arts is finding the things you like doing that people like seeing you do”
If you’re efficient, you’re doing it the wrong way. The right way is the hard way. The show was successful because I micromanaged it—every word, every line, every take, every edit, every casting. That’s my way of life.
Daniel McGinn • Jerry Seinfeld: Comedian, Innovator, Micromanager
There are so many people who don’t know what they want. And I think that, in this world, that’s the only thing you have to know — exactly what you want. ... Doing what you were born to do ... That’s the way to be happy.
Maria Popova • Iconic Painter Agnes Martin on Art, Solitude, and the Secret of Happiness
Time is the best editor.
If you have it, time is the easiest trick for self-editing. Simply put your work away long enough so when you come back to it you can see it with fresh eyes.
writingclasses.com • Kurt Vonnegut: 8 Basics of Creative Writing
Oliver Burkeman's Last Column: The Eight Secrets to a (Fairly) Fulfilled Life
Oliver Burkemantheguardian.com
