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- It's very strange when the life you never had flashes before your eyes.
- Terri Minsky, Sex and the City, The Baby Shower, 1998
- The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to mention hurting your confidence. Believe in your potential and then go out and explore it; don't limit it.
- John Eliot, Ph.D., Reverse Psychology for Success
- 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
- 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
- Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside.
- Hugh Macleod, 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.
- Hugh Macleod, 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. - Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 14. Dying young is overrated., 08-22-04
- The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 17. Merit can be bought. Passion can't. , 08-22-04
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