Every Once In A While
In order to be truly imaginative, you must possess an unusual level of self-confidence and creativity.
Debbie Millman • Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Ed Catmull • 10 highlights
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exemplifies the power and qualities of an artist: the ability to work on an edge, in an interdependent relationship with the medium, with a capacity for creative improvisation.
Sharon Daloz Parks • Leadership Can Be Taught: A Bold Approach for a Complex World
What often allows great work to get the attention it deserves is not a matter of only talent or luck but a matter of the will. Can you stick around long enough to see your work succeed? Do you have enough grit to take a few critical hits and keep going? Or will you get discouraged at the first sign of failure?
Jeff Goins • Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age
Most people fail not for lack of talent but for lack of imagination.
Bill Burnett • Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
So the first lesson is not to despair at reading these stories. They are excellent inspirational material, but poor instructional manuals. The second is, even though we see it in movies and read about it in magazines it’s not necessary to imbue forced significance on to any particular event or idea as it happens – many successful people didn’t reco... See more