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Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.

Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 31 Remain Frugal, 08-22-04

The less you can live on, the more chance your idea will succeed. This is true even after you’ve 'made it'.

Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 31. Remain Frugal., 08-22-04

Publishers are just middlemen. That's all. If artists could remember that more often, they'd save themselves a lot of aggrevation.

Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 4, 08-22-04

Nobody can tell you if what you're doing is good, meaningful or worthwhile. The more compelling the path, the more lonely it is.

Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 5, 08-22-04

If you try to make something just to fit your uninformed view of some hypothetical market, you will fail. If you make something special and powerful and honest and true, you will succeed.

Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 6, 08-22-04

The creative person basically has two kinds of jobs: One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Sometimes the task in hand covers both bases, but not often. This tense duality will always play center stage. It will never be transcended.

Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 7. Keep your day job., 08-22-04

If you're creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your company needs you now more than it ever did. And now your company can no longer afford to pretend that isn't the case.

Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 8, 08-22-04

Admit that your own private Mount Everest exists. That is half the battle.

Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 9, 08-22-04

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