In my experience, your stock is best made by collecting, organizing, and expanding upon your flow. - Austin Kleon

The first step in evaluating feedback is sizing up who it came from.

Amateurs might lack formal training, but they’re all lifelong learners, and they make a point of learning in the open, so that others can learn from their failures and successes.

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. “It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.” — Mark Twain