Quotes mentioned in book "SHOW YOUR WORK" by AUSTIN KLEON

"SHOW YOUR WORK" by AUSTIN KLEON is one the most important book I have read recently, it focuses on sharing your work with others and not keeping it a secret, sharing your work with like-minded people will help your work grow and you will be able to focus more on the process. I highly recommend this book to anyone starting new work or project or career.

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Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Austin Kleon)

Below are quote mentioned in the book at the start and end of chapter. 

“Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.” —John Cleese 

“Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

“That’s all any of us are: amateurs. We don’t live long enough to be anything else.” —Charlie Chaplin

“Find your voice, shout it from the rooftops, and keep doing it until the people that are looking for you find you.” — Dan Harmon

“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything—all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure—these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked.” —Steve Jobs

“A lot of people are so used to just seeing the outcome of work. They never see the side of the work you go through to produce the outcome.” —Michael Jackson

“In order for connection to happen, we have to allow ourselves to be seen—really seen.” —Brené Brown

“Put yourself, and your work, out there every day, and you’ll start meeting some amazing people.” —Bobby Solomon

“One day at a time. It sounds so simple. It actually is simple but it isn’t easy: It requires incredible support and fastidious structuring.” —Russell Brand

“Make no mistake: This is not your diary. You are not letting it all hang out. You are picking and choosing every single word.” —Dani Shapiro

 “If you work on something a little bit every day, you end up with something that is massive.” —Kenneth Goldsmith

“Carving out a space for yourself online, somewhere where you can express yourself and share your work, is still one of the best possible investments you can make with your time.” —Andy Baio

 “The problem with hoarding is you end up living off your reserves. Eventually, you’ll become stale. If you give away everything you have, you are left with nothing. This forces you to look, to be aware, to replenish. . . . Somehow the more you give away, the more comes back to you.” —Paul Arden

“You’re only as good as your record collection.” —DJ Spooky

“I don’t believe in guilty pleasures. If you f---ing like something, like it.” —Dave Grohl

“Do what you do best and link to the rest.” —Jeff Jarvis

“To fake a photograph, all you have to do is change the caption. To fake a painting, change the attribution.” —Errol Morris

“‘The cat sat on a mat’ is not a story. ‘The cat sat on the dog’s mat’ is astory.” —John le Carré

“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

“You got to make your case.” —Kanye West

“Whatever we say, we’re always talking about ourselves.” —Alison Bechdel

“The impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.” —Annie Dillard

“When people realize they’re being listened to, they tell you things.” —Richard Ford 

“What you want is to follow and be followed by human beings who care about issues you care about. This thing we make together. This thing is about hearts and minds, not eyeballs.” —Jeffrey Zeldman

“Whatever excites you, go do it. Whatever drains you, stop doing it.” —Derek Sivers

“Part of the act of creating is in discovering your own kind. They are everywhere. But don’t look for them in the wrong places.” —Henry Miller

“It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others.” —Susan Sontag

“You and I will be around a lot longer than Twitter, and nothing substitutes face to face.” —Rob Delaney 

“The trick is not caring what EVERYBODY thinks of you and just caring about what the RIGHT people think of you.” —Brian Michael Bendis

“Sellout . . . I’m not crazy about that word. We’re all entrepreneurs. To me, I don’t care if you own a furniture store or whatever—the best sign you can put up is sold out.” —Bill Withers

“I’d love to sell out completely. It’s just that nobody has been willing to buy.” —John Waters

“We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.” —Walt Disney

“There is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making.” —John Currin

“Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck—and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt, and not just to your gods. You owe a debt to the unlucky.” —Michael Lewis

“Work is never finished, only abandoned.” —Paul Valéry 

“We work because it’s a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next.” —Charles Eames

 “The minute you stop wanting something you get it.” —Andy Warhol

“Every two or three years, I knock off for a while. That way, I’m constantly the new girl in the whorehouse.” —Robert Mitchum

“Whenever Picasso learned how to do something, he abandoned it.” —Milton Glaser