It’s so important to have a hobby. A hobby is something creative that’s just for you. You don’t try to make money or get famous off it, you just do i… - Austin Kleon

See something worth stealing? Put it in the swipe file. Need a little inspiration? Open up the swipe file. Newspaper reporters call this a “morgue file” — I like that name even better. Your morgue file is where you keep the dead things that you’ll later reanimate in your work.

La distancia y la diferencia son el secreto tónico de la creatividad. Cuando llegamos a casa, todo es igual. Pero algo en nuestra mente ha cambiado y eso, cambia todo.” — Jonah Lehrer

Your job is to collect good ideas. The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by.