Quotes by Hugh MacLeod, Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity

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Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the c — Hugh MacLeod, Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
Writer's block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you s — Hugh MacLeod, Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
You have to find your own shtick. A Picasso always looks like Picasso painted it. Hemingway always sounds like Hemingway — Hugh MacLeod, Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
If your business plan depends on suddenly being "discovered" by some big shot, your plan will probably fail. Nobody sudd — Hugh MacLeod, Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it. — Hugh MacLeod, Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
People are fond of spouting out the old cliché about how Van Gogh never sold a painting in his lifetime. Somehow his exa — Hugh MacLeod, Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle—that is, being human. — Hugh MacLeod, Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
If you’re creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being — Hugh MacLeod, Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
They're only crayons. You didn't fear them in Kindergarten, why fear them now? — Hugh MacLeod, Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
GOOD IDEAS ALTER THE BALANCE IN RELATIONSHIPS. THAT IS WHY GOOD IDEAS ARE ALWAYS INITIALLY RESISTED. — Hugh MacLeod, Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
YOU DON’T KNOW IF YOUR IDEA IS ANY GOOD the moment it’s created. Neither does anyone else. The most you can hope for is — Hugh MacLeod, Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity