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This book explores the concept of creativity by advocating for the idea of borrowing and adapting ideas from the works of others as a means to enhance one's own creative process.
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“Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.”
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“Don't worry about doing research. Just search.”
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“Copying is about reverse-engineering.”
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“Find the most talented person in the room, and if it's not you, go stand next to him. Hang out with him. Try to be helpful. If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.”
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“When people give advice, they're really just talking to themselves in the past.”
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“Keep all your passions in your life.”
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“Enjoy your obscurity while it lasts.”
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“Pretend to be making something until you actually make something.”
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“Creative people need time to just sit around and do nothing.”
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“You're ready. Start making stuff.”
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“So go on, get angry. But keep your mouth shut and go do your work.”
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“The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us - we start editing ideas before we have them.”
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“If you ever find you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.”
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“Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, "Nothing is more important than an unread library."”
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“If I'd waited to know who I was or what I was about before I started "being creative," well, I'd still be sitting around trying to figure myself out instead of making things. In my experience, it's in the act of making things and doing our work that we figure out who we are.”
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“The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there's a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only collect things that they really love.”
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“Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use – do the work you want to see done.”
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“Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead.”
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“Your brain gets too comfortable in your everyday surroundings. You need to make it uncomfortable. You need to spend some time in another land, among people that do things differently than you. Travel makes the world look new, and when the world looks new, our brains work harder.”
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“The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like. Write the kind of story you like best - write the story you want to read. The same principle applies to your life and your career.”
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“The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by.”
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“In the end, creativity isn’t just the things we choose to put in, it’s the things we choose to leave out.”
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“Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas.”
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“If you’re worried about giving your secrets away, you can share your dots without connecting them.”
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“Nothing is more paralyzing than the idea of limitless possibilities.”
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“School is one thing. Education is another. The two don’t always overlap. Whether you’re in school or not, it’s always your job to get yourself an education.”
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“You'll either find the answer or you'll come up with a better question.”
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“Write the book you want to read”
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“The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like.”
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“Genealogy of ideas. You don’t get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can pick the music you listen to and you can pick the books you read and you can pick the movies you see.”
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“What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original.”
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“The thing is: It takes a lot of energy to be creative. You don't have that energy if you waste it on other stuff.”
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“If we're free from the burden of trying to be completely original, we can stop trying to make something out of nothing, and we can embrace influence instead of running from it.”
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“You’re only going to be as good as the stuff you surround yourself with.”
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“There’s an economic theory out there that if you take the incomes of your five closest friends and average them, the resulting number will be pretty close to your own income.
I think the same thing is true of idea incomes. You’re only going to be as good as the stuff you surround yourself with.”
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“Not everybody will get it. People will misinterpret you and what you do. They might even call you names. So get comfortable with being misunderstood, disparaged, or ignored -- the trick is to be too busy doing your work to care.”
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“The sequel always sucks compared to the sequel in our heads.”
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“It's better to burn out than fade away.”
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“Artists need pockets.”
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“If you don't find something worth stealing today, you might find it worth stealing tomorrow or a month or a year from now.”
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“Don't just steal the style, steal the thinking behind the style. You don't want to look like your heroes, you want to see like your heroes.”
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“El artista es un coleccionista, no un acumulador y claro que hay una diferencia: los acumuladores coleccionan indiscriminadamente, los artistas lo hacen selectivamente, solo coleccionan cosas que de verdad les gustan”.”
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“«Todas las ideas que se nos ocurren cotidianamente, son por lo general una mezcla de ideas previas, experiencias personales, feedback que recibimos por parte de colegas, etc.».”
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“«El manifiesto es este: dibuja el arte que quieres ver, empieza el negocio que quieres administrar, toca la música que quieres oír, escribe los libros que quieres leer, crea los productos que quieres usar. haz el trabajo que quieres que se haga».”
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“Cuando abres al público tu proceso creativo e invitas a la gente, aprendes mucho”
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“You have to dress for the job you want, not the job you have, and you have to start doing the work you want to be doing.”
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“Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don't come out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes. We learn by copying.”
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“If you have two or three real passions, don't feel like you have to pick and choose between them. Don't discard. Keep all your passions in your life.”
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“Writing a page a day doesn't seem like much, but do it for 365 days and you have enough to fill a novel.”
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“In the meantime, if you're not into the world you live in, you can build your own world around you.[...]Surround yourself with books and objects that you love. Tape things up on the wall. Create your own world.”
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