Ideas

People won't always listen to your ideas. But keep sharing them.

Ideas are like orphans left at our door. It's impossible to leave them out in the cold.

Creative people get so many ideas, to make up for those who ignore their own.

You have a creative idea. Sometimes, getting it done requires the real creativity.

Ideas can be shy creatures. They come out when they think you're not looking.

Great ideas appear when your self critic is distracted by boring stuff.

No one likes boring work, but that's when you get your best ideas.

You may by busy but the day isn't wasted if you write your ideas down.

I've heard of so many people looking for a fresh start by using stale ideas.

I believe that ideas equals hope. People lack hope because they can't create ideas that will improve their lives.

I believe that people lack hope for their future because they forgot how to create ideas that will guide them.

Most of your best thinking happens with a pen in your hand.

Your best ideas come AFTER the pen is in your hand.

Big ideas are something you grow into.

A small idea becomes big with small steps.

Better the small idea shared than the big idea hidden.

Make new relationships between ideas and people.

Ideas are like seagulls. Feed one and more will appear.

Creativity is when new relationships between ideas & people are encouraged to form.

Value your ideas enough to put them on paper.

Don't be too quick to edit yourself & your ideas.

You want a big future? . . . Follow that big idea.

Love ideas for their own sake. Some may lead to profit. And some will illuminate you.

I get the feeling a lot of people now value any idea only because it could make them money.

A treasured idea is no substitute for research, practice and persistence.

Ideas can be powerful, but no single idea can be a silver bullet.

Yes, you have ideas everyday. You look at the world through your own lense.

Your most powerful idea is the one you have about yourself.

1st: Choose a medium to learn. 2nd: Choose ideas to explore. 3rd: Care for the details. Your next project is the result of your whole life.

Every artist needs a creating place. A studio, a spare room, a corner, or just a note book. Our ideas need to escape the mind-space.

Confidence is believing in your own ideas.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but two bad ideas can make a great ideas. 

It's good to be part of something bigger than yourself. Especially if it's your big idea.

Allow your big idea to be bigger than you.

Don't always know where ideas come from, or where they will take us. But as long as you love the process.

Don't let your mind get in the way of a good idea.

I must love inspiration. I don't mind if it keeps me up half the night.

A good idea moves you forward. A bad idea stops you.

People go nowhere because they don't go where their ideas want to take them.

We run out of ideas because we don't give them time to reach the surface.

Put legs on your ideas,...YOUR legs.

Your big (scary) idea is really lots of small ideas.

Our ideas are like our children. We hope they will grow up & change the world.

Just because you find out that someone had the same idea before you. Doesn't mean you're not creative.

I wonder what the world would be like if more people just followed their ideas.

Some people have ideas that are beautifully executed. Some execute their ideas without trial.

Ideas are like dreams & phone numbers. Write them down before they disappear.

I committed my idea to memory. I committed a crime against creativity.

I'm looking for my lost idea. It's in one of these 100 billion neurons. (Might take a while).

I zoomed past a good idea today. Should have stopped for it. Looked in the mirror but it was gone.

Never be complacent. Never say, "Why do I stand up for my ideas?"

It worth fighting for a good idea.

An idea is vulnerable until it's defended.

You believe in your unseen ideas. Others need to touch & see it first.

Everyday has it's own ideas. Many aren't expected & will never come again.

Everyday is a unique alinement of your thoughts & tasks. Everyday will inspire different things in you.

I've got the Stockholm Syndrome: An idea has taken me hostage & I'm sympathizing with it's cause.

An idea has power over the originator, & gives the end user a power they didn't have before.

A person can only be as confident as he is in his ideas.

An ideal is the best combination of many ideas.

Too many ideas for this year? November is the best time to plan next year.

So many concepts new to me, fly past. Like leaves in the wind from the great tree of knowledge. Each leaf is just a passing thought. But when the leaves touch, they become thoughts combined.

Ideas don't change the world. Plans change the world.

An idea is just a seed of a great plan.
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Even if someone steals your idea, it still takes passion & planning to make it profitable. (Something they don't have).

Don't worry about someone stealing an idea. A creative person has too many ideas already.

Don't worry. People who steal ideas have already lost.
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Ever a brilliant idea needs to be presented in the right way, in the right place.

Most people don't accept new ideas until they see others applauding.

A good idea can look like bad news to the world; first there is denial, then fear, then acceptance.

Even a great idea must sit on a shelf until the world realizes that they can't live without it anymore.

I'm an entertainer....I'm entertaining the possibilities of a few ideas.

The goal is to find what we seek. But it's the unexpected & interesting things we find, that makes the journey.

I've been conducting some thought experiments. The results are rarely predicted but often interesting.

Abundance is just more people prepared to love & share their ideas.

If you don't capture ideas when they appear, they will take flight & disappear as quickly as they came.

Life becomes too scary for a person without ideas & solutions.

Work on the big idea in you, until it becomes something bigger than yourself.

An interesting life is following interesting ideas.

People choose to ignore inspiration, but not desperation.

Many conceptual leaps began as leaps of faith.

Individuals create original concepts. Groups work out the details, copy, scale & popularize.

Ideas often meet for the first time in the minds of individuals.

A valued idea contains a curtain promise; a hope we didn't have before.

The more we value our own ideas, the more we value ourselves.

An original idea works best if it creates it's own niche. A new category, a new definition.

An idea can have value in itself, or in the challenge.

Having an audience (& a community)

Let the world see the love in what you do, and they'll love it too.

Be known for what you do. It's not who you know, but who knows you.

A crowd becomes your community when you know your purpose in it.

There are those that follow a crowd. And those that serve a community.

The artist see's the worts, the audience see's the beauty.

If your audience doesn't know what fires you up, you will leave them cold.

Create from what you believe, what disturbs you, what you care about. That is what people respond to.

The only time an artist should re-create something is to re-create what is in him, into the audience.

On your creative journey, you travel through the hearts of your audience.


If every story is a journey. Then the art is to know were your audience is now. And then to take them to a place you want them to go.

Begin by trusting yourself. Then gain the trust of the 1 important person in your life. Then your future audience.

Musicians that sing about Fire, remember being burned. It still ignites their music.

A critic is someone who has just been introduced to the future.

Finding your niche & vocation

I'm thinking of becoming a Polymathic Specialist.

The burning question of most creative artists is, "How can I make a living doing what I love"?

Why do so many people underestimate the value of their talents, uniqueness & passions?

A chosen creative future is the process of taking the vocation inside you & putting yourself inside your vocation.

Your vocation is your talent and personality at play.

Your Resume is your past experience. Your Vocation Statement is your future experience.

Success & Happiness: It’s not what you know, it's knowing what you love.

Creative purpose: Find a big unsolved problem you're passionate about.

Find your niche. Then diversify within it.

Haven't found your Thing yet? ....Try lots of things.

Discovered a good friend of mine is a 'closet artist'. She's been painting in her spare time.

She reminds me of all the artist that love to paint & draw, but don't know what to do with it.

You have many great influences, but it's the style you create from yourself that matters in the end.

Music styles are the Pied Pipers, leading lives in different directions.

I'm not a very good dancer. I'm bad poetry in motion.

The heart is the compass, the mind is the map.

A vocation is the love of growing.

Failure, fear & mistakes

Failure is my teacher and success is my role-model.

We are so easily distracted so we can avoid our fear of failure.

The odd mistake is still a cheap education.

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Creative purpose: "You can be a big fish in a bigger pond too". 

Vision: Looking for a bigger pond.

Peer pressure: "Be a small fish like us".

Talent: Feeling like a big fish in a little pond.

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The only real mistake you can make is to never make any.

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Do we fear complete failure, or just a failed idea?

Trust yourself: Your ideas, your talents and your skills.

Nothing wrong about learning from a failed attempt.

Successful people profit if they succeed, Successful people profit if they fail too.

A mistake isn't a waste of time & effort. It actually gives you time to think more deeply.

Mistakes are not to be avoided. Some of them will be Happy Accidents.

Divide a big project into small steps...and smaller mistakes.

Experiment often. Fail early.

You can't be truly ready for life if you're not ready to make mistakes.

Put finished work on display. Put abandoned work away.

Yes, I have lots of experience. I've experienced failure many times.

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Pessimists look for somewhere to hide. Optimists look for somewhere to shine.

Pessimists see bad problems. Optimists see good problems.

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They'll claim to see your faults & flaws, But for you will open many doors.

They will laugh, they will snigger, But they'll stay small & you'll be bigger.

Some people don't like change, even if it doesn't affect them or is unimportant. It's just too unexpected for them.

Some people are afraid of the future, so they don't even welcome new & beneficial technologies.

Some people are afraid of being more vulnerable, so they avoid social media.

A lot of people want their life to change, but change is what they fear most. (????)

The media loves bad news, and it gives many people reasons to never try.

People want soft & safe; They make their own Padded Cell. (& slowly go crazy with boredom).

Do you want comfortable, or do you want interesting, surprising & fascinating.

People love success but they love to hear when people fail.

Give yourself a chance to succeed & you might fail. Give yourself a chance to fail & you might succeed.

People waiting for the right guarantee. But I guarantee you, man doesn't have any.

Failure IS an option. (Well, not my 1st option, but achievable).

Success is risking failure. Failure is risking nothing.

I know what avoidance taste like. It tastes like Chicken!

It looked like a wall across my path, but as I got closer I saw stones named doubt, rejection, indecision & failure.

Failing isn't being finished. But an opportunity to be a beginner, without all the extra baggage.

For many, the Twilight Zone is anywhere outside their Comfort Zone.

The comfort Zone is a 8x8 foot cubicle.

The Comfort Zone is a familiar discomfort.

A comfort zone is the fear of the unknown & untried.

Staying outside my comfort zone means being hungry enough to venture out far enough for long enough

The place you really want to be, is OUTSIDE your comfort zone.

"Can't", is often just not knowing how...yet.

Some use facts to do amazing things. Some use 'facts' to do nothing.

Some people never do what they planned, because they found a flaw. (But even successful plans had flaws).

People have a fear of getting hurt. They want to protect their inner child from harm.

Experiments

We finally live in a time when we can Rapid Prototype ourselves. Apply small changes and see if they work for you.

A creative life is a series of eXperiments. You're searching for your own X-prize.

Your are a prototype. An experimental model involved in real time field trials.

Enthusiasm & optimism

Enthusiasm is constant, even if the body can't always express it.

Enthusiasm isn't an emotion. It's an active love & a persistent devotion.

Enthusiasm is unstoppable; progress encourages it & barriers focus it.

Enthusiasm infects all that you do, & people that you share it with.

The most generous are people who share their enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm is prolonged inspiration.

Even an optimist needs a life boat.

I'm an optimist, but even a pessimist with a plan is better than an optimist without one.

 

Even in the good times, we need an escape plan / transition plan / life plan.

Employment

Other employees are only interested in the possibility that your job might be a little better than theirs.

The problem with being an employee is having to listen to other employees talking about their jobs.

Being an employee is often a necessity, but shouldn't become your whole mindset.

Everyone wants financial independence, without thinking or feeling independently.

People who worry most about their future, are the ones that leave their future in the hands of others.

People often feel trapped. But the happiest prisoner is the one planning his escape.

I want to be so ready for this year, that if I loose my job it would be a blessing.

People tend to stop creating for themselves when they start working for a boss.

Over heard a supermarket lady say, "I'm just biding my time". (I'll endure this job until I work out what I want to do with my life).

Work colleague said she's "been in this job too long, but I'm in my comfort zone now".

People spend too much time looking for disappearing jobs Instead, create a new job description.

It's easier to find a job that hasn't disappeared.