"If I'd waited to know who I was or what I was about before I started "being creative," well, I'd still be sitting around trying to figure myself out instead of making things. In my experience, it's in the act of making things and doing our work that we figure out who we are."

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Source : Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.27, Workman Publishing

Austin Kleon

#Inspirational Quotes #Creative Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.”
“Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball: And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Through the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.”

Source : "To His Coy Mistress" l. 41 (1681)
“The most sophisticated people I've ever known had just one thing in common: they were all in touch with their inner children.”
“My favorite Aspen memory is saving an upside-down cake that had exploded from the high altitude.”
“If I can make people smile, then I have served my purpose for God.”
“The only person to look out for me is me. I've got to make sure Corey Clark is all right.”
“One really beautiful wrist motion, that is synchronised with your head and heart, and you have it. It looks as if it were born in a minute.”
“I believe that this neglected, wounded, inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.”

Source : John Bradshaw (2013). “Homecoming: Reclaiming and Healing Your Inner Child”, p.7, Bantam

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