Prince, Steve Jobs, and Picasso Were Not Perfectionists
Debunking the myth of the creative perfectionist.
Debunking the myth of the creative perfectionist.
“I don’t want to be in the pop world. I don’t want to be in the alternative world, or the hip hop world, or the R&B world or whatever, you...
“The most important decision we make is the market that we choose to serve.”
“Keep your reading of contemporaries in proportion—you do not want a steady diet of contemporary literature. You already belong to your time.”
“If your creativity is driven by a desire to get attention, you’re never going to be creatively fulfilled.”
Just do the opposite of what they do.
“The end of a job doesn’t mean, shouldn’t be, and isn’t the end of your life.”
“The world is so crazy busy, there’s so much going on, there are so many distractions…what is going to make somebody who has a few precious sp...
“If your goal is to build a remarkable life, then busyness and exhaustion should be your enemy.”
“I’ll bet it took him less than a minute to realize he had something he’d rather write than ‘I have nothing I want to say’ over and over.̶...