The mindless junk of your past crowds out opportunities and sets pointless limitations. Move out the junk, and you create room for the rest of your life. Ultimately, it’s not just a question of tidying your house; it’s a question of liberating your heart.
Feeling creative produces great work in approximately the same way that “feeling like a doctor” makes you a gifted thoracic surgeon.
Workflow is understanding your job, understanding your tools, and then not thinking about it any more.
Everything takes more time than you thought, everything costs more money than you thought, and almost everything turns out not quite as cool as you expected.
People with tiny glasses and costly shoes can always find a couple of hours to explain how you did it all wrong.
Never let the guy with the broom decide how many elephants can be in the parade.
Priorities Are Like Arms; If You Think You Have More Than A Couple, You’re Either Lying Or Crazy.
Go a little easier on yourself, and in so doing, be prepared to make and do things that might seem silly at first. Just keep moving: don’t ruminate and stare at the wall. Don’t just play with your phone: go out and produce something.
Thinking can really be the enemy of action, and thinking can be the enemy of reality.
Stop. I’m not going to take any more input until I’ve made something with what I got.
Where you allow your attention to go ultimately says more about you as a human being than anything that you put in your mission statement.
You got to be careful to not get too comfortable with incremental improvement. I think sometimes you just got to jump off a ledge.
It’s just that it’s mind-boggling to me how many people I encounter every day who are struggling to subsist on a diet of bad advice about fake solutions to nonexistent problems.
Personally, it’s changed my game – it’s how I think now. Can’t imagine writing more than a paragraph in anything that doesn’t do MMD.
If you need to appear on an internet list to know whether you’re someone’s friend, you may have problems a computer can’t solve.
Don’t just play with your phone: go out and produce something.
Creative work, summarized: In the time you set aside each day to work your ass off, ignore anything that makes you consider stopping.
Creative work only seems like a magic trick to people who don’t understand that it’s ultimately still work.
A priority is observed, not manufactured or assigned. Otherwise, it’s necessarily not a priority.
Like tornadoes and cold sores, good work happens with total disregard to whether I’m ‘into it.’