"Not everybody will get it. People will misinterpret you and what you do. They might even call you names. So get comfortable with being misunderstood, disparaged, or ignored -- the trick is to be too busy doing your work to care."

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Source : Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.112, Workman Publishing

Austin Kleon

#Names Quotes #People Quotes #Misunderstood Quotes

“We are very fond of some families because they can be traced beyond the Conquest, whereas indeed the farther back, the worse, as being the nearer allied to a race of robbers and thieves.”
“This is a stamina game, so don't despair if you run down a blind alley and have to start over, or if you get another rejection letter. Every successful writer has gone through that, but they kept writing and didn't quit until they made it happen.”
“I love to sing, and I've recorded a few covers and originals with friends, but I haven't written any songs.”
“If you have life, you have purpose.”
“They say that instead of cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. Nothing is mentioned, though, about cursing a lack of candles.”
“How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you â€” you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences â€” like rags and shreds of your very life.”

Source : Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (2008). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923”, Oxford University Press, USA
“It would have been a hard year if I'd spent it berating myself for not working on the book.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“What we have to fight for...is the freedom and independence of the fatherland, so that our people may be enabled to fulfill the mission assigned to it by the Creator.”

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