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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

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.

Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 15, 08-22-04

And I loved the whole idea behind the story, which is that you're beautiful, so don't let other people tell you that you're not just because you don't look like the people in magazines. Or because you're not that weird ideal body image that's out there right now.

Mike Myers, Talking about Shrek

Neither should you fret too much about 'writer%uFFFDs block'. If you%uFFFDre looking at a blank piece of paper and nothing comes to you, then go do something else. Writer%uFFFDs block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you SHOULD feel the need to say something.

Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 24, 08-22-04

If you have something to say, then say it. If not, enjoy the silence while it lasts. The noise will return soon enough. In the meantime, you%uFFFDre better off going out into the big, wide world, having some adventures and refilling your well. Trying to create when you don%uFFFDt feel like it is like making conversation for the sake of making conversation.

Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 24, 08-22-04

Part of being a Master is learning how to sing in nobody else's voice but your own.

Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 25. You have to find your own schtick., 08-22-04

People who are 'ready' give off a different vibe than people who aren't. Animals can smell fear; maybe that's it.
The minute you become ready is the the minute you stop dreaming. Suddenly it's no longer about 'becoming'. Suddenly it's about 'doing'.

Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 28. Power is never given. Power is taken., 08-22-04

People are fond of spouting out the old clich%uFFFD about how Van Gogh never sold a painting in his lifetime. Somehow his example serves to justify to us, decades later, that there is somehow merit in utter failure.
Perhaps, but the man did commit suicide.

Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 29, 08-22-04

The fact is, the old clich%uFFFDs work for us in abstract terms, but they never work out in real life quite the same way. Life is messy; clich%uFFFDs are clean and tidy.

Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 29, 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

External signs of wealth and success are often cheap storefronts that hide internal mediocrity or even incompetence.

Gordon Atkinson, Gospel Living in a Superficial World, 05-30-06