"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."

Ralph Waldo Emerson (via theohpioneer)

"I think ‘creativity’ is better described as failing repeatedly until you get something right."

Seth Godin

Also see famous creators against the fear of failure

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"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."

Henry David Thoreau

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jamaica makes: 10 Ideas in January →

1. Do something compelling. People are hungry for better. Make something better and people will notice. This is the best promotion.
2. Message dictates the proper aesthetic. Figure out what you want to say and what is important to you, then let the style follow.
3. Make hard decisions about what is important. Be ruthless. Most things aren’t important, just by the very nature of what “important” means. From this:
   • Give emphasis to the important stuff.
   • Deemphasize the unimportant.
   • Put up barriers between you and the distracting.
4. Be picky in work relationships. Realize that agreeing to unfair circumstances not only hurts you, but your peers as well, because it pushes what is acceptable behavior in the wrong direction.
5. Talk and think about process. It’s important. Don’t worry, no one is going to steal your “secret sauce.” That only happens with recipes. And creativity isn’t a recipe.
6. Simplicity in form. Clarity in concept. Conciseness in message. Now, more than ever.
7. Learn to operate in a world of choices. Don’t paralyze yourself with analyzing opportunity costs. Think, move, assess.
8. Two things can be incongruent, yet both partially true. Making two opposing elements play nice is the germ that fuels a lot of wonderful things.
9. If you curate, add context and value. Add a perspective.
10. Feedback loops: small and tight. Inspiration sources: wide and varied.
11. Bonus idea! And, probably, the most important: substance, please.

"Happiness is a consequence of personal effort."

Elizabeth Gilbert

This feels so right to me now, and works with my current mindset about how everything must be hard-earned for one to feel fully alive.

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding."

Proverbs 3:5

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"If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."

Roald Dahl

"What is the goal? A house that is like the life that goes with it, a house that gives us beauty as we understand it— and beauty of a nobler kind that we may grow to understand."

Elsie De Wolf