So go on, get angry. But keep your mouth shut and go do your work. - Austin Kleon

You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life. You are the sum of your influences.

The only thing we can really control is what we spend our days on. What we work on and how hard we work on it. It might seem like a stretch, but I really think the best thing you can do if you want to make art is to pretend you're starring in your own remake of Groundhog Day: Yesterday's over, tomorrow may never come, there's just today and what you can do with it.

The fellow-pupil can help more than the master because he knows less.