Austin Kleon Quotes

The form of what you share doesn’t matter. Your daily dispatch can be anything you want — a blog post, an email, a tweet, a YouTube video, or some other little bit of media. There’s no one-size-fits-all plan for everybody.

In the end, creativity isn’t just the things we choose to put in, it’s the things we choose to leave out. Choose wisely. And have fun.

El manifiesto es este: dibuja el arte que quieres ver, empieza el negocio que quieres administrar, toca la música que quieres oír, escribe los libros que quieres leer, crea los productos que quieres usar. haz el trabajo que quieres que se haga

There’s an economic theory out there that if you take the incomes of your five closest friends and average them, the resulting number will be pretty close to your own income. I think the same thing is true of our idea incomes. You’re only going to be as good as the stuff you surround yourself with. My mom used to say to me, “Garbage in, garbage out.” It used to drive me nuts. But now I know what she meant.

G. C. Lichtenberg said a book is like a mirror: If a jerk looks in, a jerk looks out.

É por isso que o trabalho gerado pelo conhecimento parece tão abstrato. O artista Stanley Donwood, que fez a arte gráfica de todos os álbuns da banda Radiohead desde 1995, diz que computadores são alienantes porque colocam uma placa de vidro entre você e qualquer coisa que esteja acontecendo. “Você nunca pode tocar de verdade o que quer que faça, a não ser que imprima”, diz Donwood.

El trabajo que haces mientras procrastinas debería ser el trabajo que hagas el resto de tu vida.

You can’t wait around for someone to call you an artist before you make art. You’ll never make it.

No matter what time you get out of bed, go for a walk,” said director Ingmar Berman to his daughter, Linn Ullmann. “The demons hate it when you get out of bed. Demons hate fresh air.

People often ask me, “How do you find the time for all this?” And I answer, “I look for it.” You find time the same place you find spare change: in the nooks and crannies. You find it in the cracks between the big stuff — your commute, your lunch break, the few hours after your kids go to bed. You might have to miss an episode of your favorite TV show, you might have to miss an hour of sleep, but you can find the time if you look for it. I like to work while the world is sleeping, and share while the world is at work.

Le he robado movimientos geniales
a los mejores jugadores. Sólo trato de
que quienes vinieron antes que
yo se sientan orgullosos, porque yo he
aprendido mucho de ellos. Todo es
en nombre del juego. Es algo mucho
más grande que yo.” — Kobe Bryant

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 a huge effect on how people feel and what they understand about your work, and how people feel and what they understand about your work affects how they value it.

Necesitas incomodarlo. Necesitas pasar un tiempo en otras tierras, con gente que hace cosas diferentes a las que estás acostumbrado. Viajar hace que el mundo se vea nuevo, y cuando el mundo se ve nuevo, nuestro cerebro trabaja más.

El manifiesto es éste: dibuja el arte que quieres ver, empieza el negocio que quieres administrar, toca la música que quieres oír, escribe los libros que quieres leer, crea los productos que quieres usar.

Suena un poco extremo, pero en el momento en que vivimos, si tu trabajo no está en la red, no existe. Todos tenemos la oportunidad de usar nuestra voz, de decir algo, pero muchos la estamos desaprovechando. Si quieres que la gente se entere de lo que haces y de las cosas que te interesan, tienes que aprender a compartir. “Recordar que un día no muy lejano moriré es la mejor herramienta que he encontrado para tomar las decisiones más importantes de mi vida.