Austin Kleon Quotes

Arte moderno = ‘Yo podría
hacer eso.’+ ‘Sí pero
no lo hiciste.’” — Craig Damrauer

LEAVE THINGS BETTER THAN YOU FOUND THEM.

acostúmbrate a ser malentendido, menospreciado, hasta ignorado. El truco es estar demasiado ocupado trabajando para que eso no te importe.

Always be reading. Go to the library. There’s magic in
being surrounded by books. Get lost in the stacks. Read
bibliographies. It’s not the book you start with, it’s the book
that book leads you to.

Don’t worry, for now, about how you’ll make money or a career off it. Forget about being an expert or a professional, and wear your amateurism (your heart, your love) on your sleeve. Share what you love, and the people who love the same things will find you.

Dr. Seuss wrote The Cat in the Hat with only 236 different words, so his editor bet him he couldn’t write a book with only 50 different words. Dr. Seuss came back and won the bet with Green Eggs and Ham, one of the bestselling children’s books of all time.

Colecciona libros, aunque no planees leerlos inmediatamente. El cineasta John Waters dijo: “Nada es más importante que una biblioteca sin leer.

Writing a page a day doesn't seem like much, but do it for 365 days and you have enough to fill a novel.

Pretend to be something you’re not until you are — fake it until you’re successful, until everybody sees you the way you want them.

Any man can fight the battles of just one day,” begins a passage collected in Richmond Walker’s book of meditations for recovering alcoholics, Twenty-Four Hours a Day. “It is only when you and I add the burden of those two awful eternities, yesterday and tomorrow, that we break down. It is not the experience of today that drives men mad. It is remorse or bitterness for something which happened yesterday or the dread of what tomorrow may bring. Let us therefore do our best to live but one day at a time.

dress for the job you want, not the job you have, and you have to start doing the work you want to be doing.

If you get one thing out of this book make it this: Go register a domain name. Buy www.[insert your name here].com. [...] Your website doesn't have to look pretty; it just has to exist.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

School is one thing. Education is another. The two don’t always overlap. Whether you’re in school or not, it’s always your job to get yourself an education.

limitations mean freedom.