Jock Genius

Work like you don’t need the money.

 Love like you’ve never been hurt. 

Dance like nobody’s watching. 

Satchel Paige

IOW, do your work like you're not getting paid. Do the work you want to do. 


I’ve worked in the marketing and corporate communications space for a while now. I've had to write about all kinds of subject matter that, on the surface, wasn’t that interesting to me. But I used a technique I forged when I worked as a bartender in a restaurant that catered to a mostly dull and self-serving grayhead clientele: Find whatever’s in there, be it a person or a subject, that’s interesting to me. Make them/it interesting. Sometimes that means taking the subject/person places they wouldn’t go without your guidance. 

Work like you’re the audience. And find the things within it that are your loves and passions. 

And then dance about it like nobody’s watching because it isn’t for them—it’s for you: All you.

Joseph Campbell knows

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

Amen

More Portable Eno

What you need are fewer possibilities that are more interesting.... It's not more options that you want, it's more useful options. Brian Eno

Artist Be Aware

Comparison is an act of violence against the self. Iyanla Vanzant

Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again. André Gide

Fripp & Eno

Brian Eno
You don't have to act as if you know what you're doing.

Just relax. You're always at the beginning of something and very often you're very close to success.

If your first move is brilliant, you're in trouble. You don't really know how to follow it; you're frightened of ruining it.

I really begin by allowing myself to make a mess, and then seeing if I can get out of it.

Robert Fripp
There are no mistakes, save one: The failure to learn from a mistake. 

When a musician [or writer or artist or...] believes that music [or writing or art or...] is a commodity, music [or writing or art or...] dies in them.