Hugh MacLeod Quotes

A lot of people in business say they have twenty years' experience, when in fact all they have is one year's experience, repeated twenty times.

Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it.

If you’re looking at a blank piece of paper and nothing comes to you, then go do something else. Writer’s block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you should feel the need to say something.

The hunger will give you everything and it will take from you, everything. It will cost you your life, and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it. But knowing this, of course, is what ultimately sets you free.

The price of being a sheep is boredom,
the price of being a wolf is loneliness,
choose one or the other with great care.

GOOD IDEAS ALTER THE BALANCE IN RELATIONSHIPS. THAT IS WHY GOOD IDEAS ARE ALWAYS INITIALLY RESISTED.

The more talented somebody is, the less they need the props. Meeting a person who wrote a masterpiece on the back of a deli menu would not surprise me. Meeting a person who wrote a masterpiece with a silver Cartier fountain pen on an antique writing table in an airy SoHo loft would seriously surprise me.

Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kidergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take te crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on agebra, history, ect. Being suddenly hit years later with the 'creative bug' is just a wee voice telling you, 'I'd like my crayons back, please.

Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the 'creative bug' is just a wee voice telling you, 'I'd like my crayons back, please.

Menos follón, menos estrés, más beneficio.

Good ideas come with a heavy burden. Which is why so few people have them. So few people can handle it.

The sovereignty you have over your work will inspire far more people than the actual content ever will.

When your dreams becoming reality, they're no longer your dreams.

If you accept the pain, it cannot hurt you.

Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle.