Nothing is more paralyzing than the idea of limitless possibilities. The idea that you can do anything is absolutely terrifying. - Austin Kleon

Nothing is more paralyzing than the idea of limitless possibilities.

Fake it till you make it. I love this phrase. There are two ways to read it:
1. Pretend to be you're something you're not until you are - fake it until youre successful, until everybody sees you the way you want them to; or
2. Pretend to be making something until you actually make something.
I love both readings, you have to dress for the job you want, not the job you have, and you have to start doing the work you want to be doing.

I once heard the cartoonist Gary Panter say, “If you have one person you’re influenced by, everyone will say you’re the next whoever. But if you rip off a hundred people, everyone will say you’re so original!

bliss station”: You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes to you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. This is the place of creative incubation.