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Affirmations are not bound up in rules. An affirmation can be long or short, poetic or plain. If you love a phrase and find that it helps you, that is a valid affirmation.

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Eric Maisel
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 14
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Go directly to work' means... when an idea strikes, you drop everything and when your work bell tolls, you answer it.
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Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure it is only tragic if they know failure and little else.
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The artist is a god, but he is also an idiot. That is the human way.
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Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.
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To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of connecting.
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When you consciously decide to breathe more slowly and deeply, you alert your body to the fact that you want it to behave differently. You are not just changing your breathing pattern, you are making a full-body announcement that you are entering into a different relationship with your mind and your body.
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Isn't today a day to devote to craft? Isn't tomorrow? Isn't every day, routinely, until the end of time?
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Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in it an artist can drown.
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An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace.
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A time comes, after years in the trenches, when the artist begins to fathom what his career has looked like so far and what it will look like if he continues as he's proceeded.
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Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.
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If, because of anxiety and self-doubt, you procrastinate and only think about working, you'll feel more exhausted than if you'd created for hours.
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The wise artist makes peace with the fact that he will understand less than he had anticipated.
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