don’t be discouraged
weathering the ups and downs of creative projects, life, relationships. one brick at a time.
by sari and · updated 3mo ago
don’t be discouraged
- Work, family, or friends: pick two. You can have it all, just not all at once.
from The best thing ever written about “work-life balance” - Austin Kleon
David Pennington added 6mo ago
- “Generally everyone is misunderstood, and you realize it’s not your job to make people understand you,” Le Bon said. “It’s your job to work and align yourself with your own integrity. I think that’s even harder to harness when you’re an artist as big as Annie. But she does.”
from St. Vincent Dives Headfirst Into the Darkness
David Pennington added 6mo ago
- This idea is nothing new and ever more relevant in our age of digital detoxes and celebrities who are famous for being famous. We know what we want, we have made that choice, and the only chance for improvement is a gritty dedication to your discipline.
from Entertained to the Death of It – D.T. Pennington
David Pennington added 9mo ago
- The legendary designer Paula Scher said, “I still [a little over 5 decades into her career] make things that are pretty awful. It’s part of the process. You have periods of tremendous productivity and other periods where you’re fallow. The fallow periods are really important because that’s where you’re figuring something it out. You have to work th... See more
from SIX at 6: Swiss Cheese, in the Heights, Wylie Dufresne, STORY, Owning Your Style, and the Fallow Periods by Billy Oppenheimer
sari added 1y ago
- The thing that no one ever tells you about your calling is that it’s boring. Oh, everything is interesting if you’re interested… shut up. Yes, it will be exhilarating and fun and fluid and and natural and meaningful. It will also be tedious. It will hurt. You will encounter obstacle after obstacle until you feel like you’re in a video game with alg... See more
andrea and added 1y ago
- In 1817, the poet John Keats wrote a letter to his brothers to share this exciting realization. “At once it struck me,” Keats wrote, “what quality went to form a Man of Achievement … Negative Capability.” Keats explains that “Negative Capability” is “when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching ... See more
sari added 1y ago
- Before he was Han Solo or Indiana Jones, Harrison Ford was a carpenter. In 1964, Ford moved to Hollywood to become an actor. “But I arrived on a metaphoric bus full of people who had the same ambition,” he said. So he came up with this plan to prevail over the competition. As Ford spent time around the other aspiring actors on that metaphoric bus, ... See more
phoebe added 1y ago
- “Ignore the boos. They usually come from the cheap seats.”
from Haters and Critics: How to Deal with People Judging You and Your Work by James Clear
sari added 1y ago
I tell a lot of entrepreneurs who don’t have traction, I miss those times. Yes, it’s exciting to have traction, to have a company that has huge scale. But the biggest leaps you ever get are when you’re small. Another way of saying it is: Your product changes less the bigger you get because there’s more customers, more blowback, more systems, more
... See morefrom How to Scale a Magical Experience: 4 Lessons from Airbnb’s Brian Chesky by Reid Hoffman
sari added 1y ago