Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Eat breakfast. Do some push-ups. Go for long walks. Get plenty of sleep.
Austin Kleon
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Austin Kleon
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: June 16
Author
Musician
Visual Artist
Writer
Ohio
United States
Plenty
Walks
Sleep
Long
Breakfast
Push
More quotes by 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. If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.
Austin Kleon
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.
Austin Kleon
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.
Austin Kleon
Do good work and share it with people.
Austin Kleon
Become a documentarian of what you do.
Austin Kleon
It's in the act of making things that we figure out who we are.
Austin Kleon
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.
Austin Kleon
If we're free from the burden of trying to be completely original, we can stop trying to make something out of nothing, and we can embrace influence instead of running from it.
Austin Kleon
You’re only going to be as good as the stuff you surround yourself with.
Austin Kleon
Don't worry about doing research. Just search.
Austin Kleon
Amateurs know that contributing something is better than contributing nothing.
Austin Kleon
In order to be found, you have to be findable.
Austin Kleon
Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.
Austin Kleon
If you’re worried about giving your secrets away, you can share your dots without connecting them.
Austin Kleon
Nothing is more paralyzing than the idea of limitless possibilities.
Austin Kleon
The people who get what they’re after are very often the ones who just stick around long enough.
Austin Kleon
Copying is about reverse-engineering.
Austin Kleon
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.
Austin Kleon
The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by.
Austin Kleon
Be boring. (It’s the only way to get work done.)
Austin Kleon