You dont have to live anywhere other than the place you are to start connecting with the world you want to be in. - Austin Kleon

"You don’t get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can pick the music you listen to and you can pick the books you read and you can pick the movies you see. You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life. You are the sum of your influences. The German writer Goethe said, "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

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

A lot of us go about our work and feel like we have nothing to show for it at the end of the day.