Austin Kleon Quotes

You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life. You are the sum of your influences.

And remember: If you want maximum artistic freedom, keep your overhead low. A free creative life is not about living within your means, it’s about living below your means.

Once a day, after you’ve done your day’s work, go back to your documentation and find one little piece of your process that you can share. Where you are in your process will determine what that piece is. If you’re in the very early stages, share your influences and what’s inspiring you. If you’re in the middle of executing a project, write about your methods or share works in progress. If you’ve just completed a project, show the final product, share scraps from the cutting-room floor, or write about what you learned. If you have lots of projects out into the world, you can report on how they’re doing — you can tell stories about how people are interacting with your work.

We all like to think we’re more complex than a two-sentence explanation.

Complain about the way other people make software by making software.” — Andre Torrez

By letting go of our egos and sharing our process, we allow for the possibility of people having an ongoing connection with us and our work, which helps us move more of our product.

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

When you open up your process and invite people in, you learn.

It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.

Human beings want to know where things came from, how they were made, and who made them. The stories you tell about the work you do have

chew on one thinker-writer, activist, role model- you really love. Study everything there is to know about that thinker. Then find three people the thinker loved and find out everything about them. Repeat this as many times as you can. Climb up the tree as far as you can go. Once you built your tree, it's time to start your own branch.

Read deeply. Stay open. Continue to wonder.

Ve výsledku jsi tedy směsicí všeho, čemu dovolíš vstoupit do svého života.

Write the kind of story you like best — write the story you want to read.

Strike all the adjectives from your bio.