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Hugh Macleod
| “ | Good ideas alter the power balance in relationships, that is why good ideas are always initially resisted. Good ideas come with a heavy burden. Which is why so few people have them. So few people can handle it.
How To Be Creative: 1 Ignore Everybody, 08-22-04 | ” |
| “ | There's no correlation between creativity and equipment ownership. None. Zilch. Nada. Actually, as the artist gets more into his thing, and as he gets more successful, his number of tools tends to go down. He knows what works for him. Expending mental energy on stuff wastes time.
How To Be Creative: 10, 08-22-04 | ” |
| “ | All existing business models are wrong. Find a new one.
How To Be Creative: 11, 08-22-04 | ” |
| “ | Question how much freedom your path affords you. Be utterly ruthless about it.
It's your freedom that will get you to where you want to go.
How To Be Creative: 11, 08-22-04 | ” |
| “ | The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
How To Be Creative: 12. If you accept the pain, it cannot hurt you., 08-22-04 | ” |
| “ | Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside.
How To Be Creative: 13, 08-22-04 | ” |
| “ | The first rule of business, is never sell something you love. Otherwise, you may as well be selling your children.
How To Be Creative: 13, 08-22-04 | ” |
| “ | The bars of West Hollywood and New York are awash with people throwing their lives away in the desperate hope of finding a shortcut, any shortcut. And a lot of them aren't even young anymore; their B-plans having been washed away by Vodka & Tonics years ago.
Meanwhile their competition is at home, working their asses off.
How To Be Creative: 14. Dying young is overrated., 08-22-04 | ” |
| “ | Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it. The more you need the money, the more people will tell you what to do. The less control you will have. The more bullshit you will have to swallow. The less joy it will bring. Know this and plan accordingly.
How To Be Creative: 15, 08-22-04 | ” |
| “ | When I see somebody 'suffering for their art', it%uFFFDs usually a case of them not knowing where that red line is, not knowing where the sovereignty lies.
How To Be Creative: 15, 08-22-04 | ” |
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