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The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by.

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Austin Kleon
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: June 16
Author
Musician
Visual Artist
Writer
Ohio
United States
Collect
Influenced
Choose
Ideas
Good

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Be boring. (It’s the only way to get work done.)
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Amateurs know that contributing something is better than contributing nothing.
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Marriage is two people in love standing in the same bathroom
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Do good work and share it with people.
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Your brain gets too comfortable in your everyday surroundings. You need to make it uncomfortable. You need to spend some time in another land, among people that do things differently than you. Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.
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Usually, when we talk about creativity, it's about self-expression, which is great, but for work to be art or design, there has to be someone on the other end. The audience makes the work come alive.
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Don't wait until you know who you are to get started.
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Become a documentarian of what you do.
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The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there's a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only collect things that they really love.
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Obituaries are like near-death experiences for cowards.
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Copying is about reverse-engineering.
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It's in the act of making things that we figure out who we are.
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You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life.
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There’s an economic theory out there that if you take the incomes of your five closest friends and average them, the resulting number will be pretty close to your own income. I think the same thing is true of idea incomes. You’re only going to be as good as the stuff you surround yourself with.
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Inertia is the death of creativity
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Pretend to be making something until you actually make something.
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In order to be found, you have to be findable.
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Not everybody will get it. People will misinterpret you and what you do. They might even call you names. So get comfortable with being misunderstood, disparaged, or ignored -- the trick is to be too busy doing your work to care.
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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. If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.
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You're ready. Start making stuff.
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