The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us - we start editing ideas before we have them.

Be boring. (It’s the only way to get work done.)

In the end, creativity isn’t just the things we choose to put in, it’s the things we choose to leave out.

Be nice. (The world is a small town.)

Dig into almost every overnight success story and you’ll find about a decade’s worth of hard work and perseverance.

It sounds a little extreme, but in this day and age, if your work isn't online, it doesn't exist.

Art is theft”) and Igor Stravinsky (“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal”), I’ve always stolen from the people I admire – not plagiarized, mind you, but stolen bits of ideas and stylistic influences. If you steal widely enough, after all, your models are inevitably changed and the result is in the end completely yours. Kleon cites André Gide to this point, in a quotation I love: “Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.