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Learn about money as soon as you can.
— Austin Kleon
The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life. - Jessica Hische
— Austin Kleon
Art that only comes from the head isn't any good.
— Austin Kleon
Once a day, after you've done your day's work, go back to your documentation and find one little piece of your process that you can share.
— Austin Kleon
Comments outnumber ideas.
— Austin Kleon
Establishing and keeping a routine can be even more important than having a lot of time.
— Austin Kleon
Dig into almost every overnight success story and you'll find about a decade's worth of hard work and perseverance.
— Austin Kleon
Surround yourself with books and objects that you love. Tape things up on the wall. Create your own world.
— Austin Kleon
You and I will be around a lot longer than Twitter, and nothing substitutes face to face. - Rob Delaney It
— Austin Kleon
We all have the opportunity to use our voices, to have our say, but so many of us are wasting it.
— Austin Kleon
Show your work, and when the right people show up, pay close attention to them, because they'll have a lot to show you.
— Austin Kleon
My motto for creativity-
And remember, STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST. — Austin Kleon
And remember, STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST. — Austin Kleon
the only way to find your voice is to use it.
— Austin Kleon
We found the future, like birds fly into windows.
— Austin Kleon
People love it when you give your secrets away, and sometimes, if you're smart about it, they'll reward you by buying the things you're selling.
— Austin Kleon
Make stuff you love and talk about stuff you love and you'll attract people who love that kind of stuff. It's that simple.
— Austin Kleon
Once the computer is involved, things are on an inevitable path to being finished. Whereas in my sketchbook the possibilities are endless.
— Austin Kleon
There's an intuition learned through our work. Teaching others doesn't mean they can just go out and replicate it.
— Austin Kleon
Neil Young sang, "It's better to burn out than to fade away." I say it's better to burn slow and see your grandkids.
— Austin Kleon
Your influences are all worth sharing because they clue people in to who you are and what you do - sometimes even more than your own work.
— Austin Kleon
In fact, sharing your process might actually be most valuable if the products of your work aren't easily shared,
— Austin Kleon
The stupidest possible creative act is still a creative act,
— Austin Kleon
Show just a little bit of what you're working on.
— Austin Kleon
Validation is for parking.
— Austin Kleon
Whenever you're at a loss for what move to make next, just ask yourself, What would make a betterstory?
— Austin Kleon
Do good work and share it with people.
— Austin Kleon
The biggest task in the morning is to try to keep my headspace from being invaded by the outside world.
— Austin Kleon
Your job is to collect good ideas. The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by.
— Austin Kleon
Remember: Even The Beatles started as a cover band.
— Austin Kleon
You're ready. Start making stuff.
— Austin Kleon
If you want people to know about what you do and the things you care about, you have to share.
— Austin Kleon
Don't talk to people you don't want to talk to, and don't talk about stuff you don't want to talk about.
— Austin Kleon
These days, most of us carry a fully functional multimedia studio around in our smartphones.
— Austin Kleon
You can turn your flow into stock.
— Austin Kleon
You don't have to live anywhere other than the place you are to start connecting with the world you want to be in.
— Austin Kleon
If you want followers, be someone worth following.
— Austin Kleon
You're never "keeping it real" with your lack of punctuation and proofreading, you're keeping it unintelligible.
— Austin Kleon
Be boring. (It's the only way to get work done.)
— Austin Kleon
Keep all your passions in your life.
— Austin Kleon
Find the most talented person in the room, and if it's not you, go stand next to him. Hang out with him. Try to be helpful.
— Austin Kleon
Remember what writer Colin Marshall says: Compulsive avoidance of embarrassment is a form of suicide.
— Austin Kleon
What to copy is a little bit trickier. Don't just steal the style, steal the thinking behind the style.
— Austin Kleon
First, you have to figure out who to copy. Second, you have to figure out what to copy.
— Austin Kleon
Marriage is two people in love standing in the same bathroom
— Austin Kleon
Find a scenius, pay attention to what others are sharing, and then start taking note of what they're not sharing.
— Austin Kleon
When you get rid of old material, you push yourself further and come up with something better.
— Austin Kleon
It's one of my theories that when people give you advice, they're really just talking to themselves in the past.
— Austin Kleon
Ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them
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You'll never get that freedom back again once people start paying you attention, and especially not once they start paying you money.
— Austin Kleon
You can't find your voice if you don't use it.
— Austin Kleon
Step 1: Wonder at something. Step 2: Invite others to wonder with you. You should wonder at the things nobody else is wondering about.
— Austin Kleon
You can't count on success; you can only leave open the possibility for it, and be ready to jump on and take the ride when it comes for you.
— Austin Kleon
The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.
— Austin Kleon
Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine.
— Austin Kleon
If you feel like you have two or three real passions, don't pick and choose between them. Don't discard. Keep all your passions in your life.
— Austin Kleon
What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original.
— Austin Kleon
You just have to be as generous as you can, but selfish enough to get your work done.
— Austin Kleon
Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else
that's how you'll get ahead. — Austin Kleon
that's how you'll get ahead. — Austin Kleon
The worst troll is the one that lives in your head.
— Austin Kleon
Disconnect from anything and everything electronic.
— Austin Kleon
It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected. - Mark Twain
— Austin Kleon
Dress for the job you want, not the job you have, and you have to start doing the work you want to be doing.
— Austin Kleon
The people who get what they're after are very often the ones who just stick around long enough.
— Austin Kleon
Don't worry about unity from piece to piece - what unifies all of your work is the fact that you made it.
— Austin Kleon
If you want fans, you have to be a fan first.
— Austin Kleon
If you want to be a writer, you have to be a reader first.
— Austin Kleon
You can't be content with mastery; you have to push yourself to become a student again.
— Austin Kleon
In the digital age, don't forget to use your digits!
— Austin Kleon
In the first act, you get your hero up a tree. The second act, you throw rocks at him. For the third act, you let him down."- George Abbott
— Austin Kleon
Words matter. Artists love to trot out the tired line, "My work speaks for itself," but the truth is, our work doesn't speak for itself.
— Austin Kleon
Become a documentarian of what you do.
— Austin Kleon
Imitation is about copying. Emulation is when imitation goes one step further, breaking through into your own thing.
— Austin Kleon
When I get busy, I get stupid.
— Austin Kleon
This is yet another trait of amateurs - they'll use whatever tools they can get their hands on to try to get their ideas into the world.
— Austin Kleon
Writing a page each day doesn't seem like much, but do it for 365 days and you have enough to fill a novel.
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It sounds a little extreme, but in this day and age, if your work isn't online, it doesn't exist.
— Austin Kleon
All you need is a little space and a little time - a place to work, and some time to do it; a little self-imposed solitude and temporary captivity.
— Austin Kleon
Life is a lonely bussiness
— Austin Kleon