“If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced”
– Vincent Van Gogh
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Don’t wait for inspiration…
“You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.”
– Jack London.
Lube for the unconscious mind
“Stuff your unconscious mind with information, then unhook your rational thought process. You can help this by going for a long walk, or taking a hot bath, or drinking half a pint of claret. Suddenly, if the telephone line from your unconscious is open, a big idea wells up within you”. – David Ogilvy, ‘Ogilvy On Advertising’
We can’t all be Hemingway
“Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn’t. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still… you look at all this stuff with a grain ” – Mickey Spillane, author of lots of pulp detective stories.
Success. Cubed.
“The object of the game is to win”
– Football coach Vince Lombardi when he was asked what the game was all about. A nice window into the mindset of the motivated.
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