Quotes About Creation

Leo Babauta's brilliant little book Zen Habits helps you think your way through this problem. His program is simple: Attempt to create only one significant work a year.

There's a practice available to each of us—the practice of embracing the process of creation in service of better. The practice is not the means to the output, the practice is the output

As we'll see, the greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce. To create solutions and hustle them out the door.

How can I create something that critics will criticize?

The value we create is directly related to how much valuable information we can produce, how much trust we can earn, and how often we innovate.

You can't really decide to paint a masterpiece. You just have to think hard, work hard, and try to make a painting that you care about. Then, if you're lucky, your work will find an audience for whom it's meaningful.

Where does the scarcity come from? It comes from the hurdles that the markets and our society set up. It comes from the fact that most competitors quit long before they've created something that makes it to the top. That's the way it's supposed to be. The system depends on it.

Art isn't a result; it's a journey. The challenge of our time is to find a journey worthy of your heart and your soul.

I don't remember writing most of these posts.

You can create dozens or even hundreds of paths for an individual to follow from the first contact until the highest level of permission is granted.

Ship your work. It's good enough. Then, make it better.

Make things better. It's entirely possible that the thing you are marketing satisfies no real demand.

Each of us can show up in our own way, but the choice is the same: to lead, to create work that matters, and to find the magic that happens when we are lucky enough to cocreate with people who care.

The entire organization works for and with the marketer, because marketing is all of it. What we make, how we make it, who we make it for. It is the effects and the side effects, the pricing and the profit, all at once.

A day's work is your chance to do art, to create a gift, to do something that matters.

Attempt to create only one significant work a year.

12. If you have an idea and publish it on the Internet, that counts as a ghost of done. 13. Done is the engine of more.

By producing their means of subsistence men are indirectly producing their actual material life.

Steven Pressfield wrote, "What have you and I been put on this Earth to do? Is it not the creation of the 'inauthentic,' that is the purposefully crafted, in order to deliver to others the gift and simulacrum of authenticity? That's why they call it Art, and why, in some crazy way, it's realer than real and truer than true.

It doesn't make any sense to make a key and then run around looking for a lock to open. The only productive solution is to find a lock and then fashion a key. It's easier to make products and services for the customers you seek to serve than it is to find customers for your products and services.

Everyone who creates feels resistance, everyone that is seriously involved in inventing original work feels the fear, that's not the question. The question is where do you put the fear.

the greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce.

Art is what we call it when we're able to create something new that changes someone.

The linchpins leverage something internal, not external, to create a position of power and value.