"Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead."

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Source : Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.19, Workman Publishing

Austin Kleon

#Looks Quotes #World Quotes #Curious Quotes

“I wanted to see something in full daylight; I was sated with the pleasure and comfort of the half light; I had the same desire for the daylight as for water and air. And if seeing was fire, I required the plenitude of fire, and if seeing would infect me with madness, I madly wanted that madness.”

Source : Maurice Blanchot (1981). “Folie Du Jour”, Barrytown/ Station Hill Press
“We live in a world that needs entertainment. And that entertainment has to be provided by men who sweat and bleed.”
“In certain places, not always, there are moments where I tried to convey in English a sense of foreignness. I wanted the reader to get the sense that another language is being spoken.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“My mother was the worst kind of stage mother. She would make me and my younger sister and brother little duckling costumes and put us in kiddie shows.”
“As a living, breathing person, you must love things that derive from nature.”

Source : Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com
“If thy hope be any thing worth, it will purify thee from thy sins.”
“If people are coming to work excited. . . if they're making mistakes freely and fearlessly. . . if they're having fun. . . if they're concentrating on doing things rather than preparing reports and going to meetings-then somewhere you have leaders.”
“You're not just looking for laughs, but you're trying to do the characters first, and then the laughs come afterwards.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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