[[Topics]] ## Notes - [[5 Tenets]] - [[The seven point creed|7 things to do]] - [[10 bullets]] - [[Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless, and add what is specifically your own]] - [[Action shouldn't be worth a thousand words. It should be worth one; yours.]] - [[Always be yourself]] - [[Always choose the warmer path]] - [[Always find the fun in making]] - [[Always present your ambitions with humility and grace]] - [[A mechanical man. No longer a human being.]] - [[Author's voice]] - [[Balance of mechanics and expression]] - [[Be a triangle amongst a sea of squares]] - [[Be authentic]] - [[Be brutally pragmatic underscored with sincerity and love]] - [[Become one with the punch]] - [[Being proficient in theory isn't the same as being practiced in expression]] - [[Be kind but firm]] - [[Be so good that when others examine you for your flaws, they only see their own]] - [[Be true to your community, yourself, and your word]] - [[Be water]] - [[Be yourself to free yourself]] - [[Be yourselves, together]] - [[Building something always makes me feel in love with it]] - [[Caution should not constrain creativity or expression]] - [[Competitive Greatness]] - [[Control yourself, inspire others.]] - [[Create and curate an archive of yourself]] - [[Culture is the context that shapes the way we express ourselves]] - [[Dancing and martial arts]] - [[Develop trust; one promise at a time.]] - [[Devin Townsend interview about his relationship with metal]] - [[Do it for the love, not for the likes]] - [[Do not let others implicate you in living an illusory life]] - [[Don't hide your feelings]] - [[Dont hide your feelings]] - [[Don't read the book that you should read, but you wanna read.]] - [[Don't talk about your philosophy. Embody it.]] - [[Don't think, feel]] - [[Do you. Be you.]] - [[Do your best to bring smiles to the faces and hearts of others]] - [[Drawing is breathing]] - [[Embrace the cringe]] - [[Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.]] - [[Every project is a projection of you]] - [[Every shop is an externalization of a philosophy of how to work]] - [[Express and empty]] - [[Expressive exploration is about capturing the natural emotional response of experiencing and reacting to something new]] - [[Express yourself authentically and unapologetically]] - [[Express yourself effortlessly]] - [[Externalizing thoughts opens the freedom to dream]] - [[Finesse and flavour]] - [[Flow state]] - [[Focus on what you wish to express]] - [[For anyone afraid to start something new]] - [[For me, what's fun is to buy those pieces, and then weather them and bring them in]] - [[Give voice to the story only you know how to tell]] - [[Give yourself permission to be creative]] - [[Honestly expressing yourself]] - [[How I became confident - Russell Brand]] - [[How to not get lost during jazz improvisation]] - [[How to stop caring what other people think of you]] - [[How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you]] - [[Identity is who you are. Individuality is how you choose to express it.]] - [[I do not believe in styles anymore]] - [[If I could rebuild my shop from scratch - Ask Adam Savage]] - [[If I don't meet the existing beauty standard, I will become a new and different standard]] - [[If it matters, it’s worth a try.]] - [[If there is something that you feel is good, something that you want to do, something that means something to you, try to do it.]] - [[If you get close to what you love, who you are is revealed to you, and it expands.]] - [[If you play pure technique, you may sound fascinating, but mechanical]] - [[If you repress you depress. To impress, you must express.]] - [[Improvisation is the act of playing your own music. It is the art of honestly expressing yourself.]] - [[Improvisation is the art of being completely OK with not knowing what the f___ you're doing]] - [[Improvisation is the courage to move from one note to the next]] - [[Innovation and intrigue can exist in integration, not just in invention]] - [[Insecure action rarely provide secure outcomes]] - [[I prefer genuineness over diligence]] - [[It gave me respect for people who are just spontaneously funny with each other. Like the anchors for every morning news show]] - [[I try to show them sides of themselves they don't ever use]] - [[It's not about playing fast. It's about playing with feeling.]] - [[It's not how big you are, it's how big you play.]] - [[I've never seen people so excited to talk about their utter lack of excitement]] - [[I write and write and write till my brain hurts]] - [[John Mayer describes his song writing process]] - [[Language shapes what we can and cannot do]] - [[Liberate yourself from that which restricts your creative freedom and self expression]] - [[Live and honour your truth]] - [[Live your best in the present to create a past of which you can be proud of]] - [[Make ideas instinct]] - [[Make more space for smiles]] - [[Makers in the film industry - Adam Savage]] - [[Make the world shake with your unshakable truth]] - [[Mission statement]] - [[Music is ultimately about feeling]] - [[My great ability is to exercise my curiosity]] - [[Never whisper what you can shout]] - [[Open yet opinionated]] - [[Open yourself up to your own instincts to find the technique that works for you]] - [[Pop an ollie and innovate - Rodney Mullen]] - [[Pragmatism with passion]] - [[Preparing the vessels]] - [[Realize yourself with meaningful action]] - [[Safely assume that nobody will ever read what you are writing. Not even you.]] - [[Say what you mean and mean what you say. There is nothing in between.]] - [[Scale yourself]] - [[Search within yourself to discover the totality of your self expression]] - [[Self expression is self understanding]] - [[Sense of flow]] - [[Sense of play]] - [[Share your enthusiasm with others]] - [[Sharing stories is one of my favourite ways to widen the world]] - [[Showing off is a fool's idea of glory]] - [[Show up as your best and authentic self and make someone else's day a bit better]] - [[Skaters... they tend to be outsiders, who seek a sense of belonging, but belonging on their own terms]] - [[Sometimes emotions shout louder than logic]] - [[Speak with honesty, think with sincerity, and act with integrity.]] - [[State what you believe to be true. Let the consequences of that unfold.]] - [[Strategy must be embedded so deeply ones core values and vision that recall should be instantaneous]] - [[Take what you do seriously. Take yourself less seriously.]] - [[Tell your story to yourself. Tell your story to the world.]] - [[The best that you can be is to be yourself]] - [[The degree to which we connect to a community is in proportion to our individuality, which we are expressing by what we do]] - [[The greater the contribution, the more we express and form our individuality]] - [[The ideal is unnatural naturalness or natural unnaturalness]] - [[The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be]] - [[The more complicated and restrictive a method is, the less opportunity there for expression of one's original sense of freedom]] - [[The more you lecture, the more mechanical you sound. When you lecture, you speak from the brain. When you talk, you speak from the heart.]] - [[Theory speaks from the mind. Expression speaks from the soul.]] - [[The pyramid of success]] - [[The rage might not be there, but the passion is the exact same as it's always been]] - [[There's a big difference in telling appreciation and showing appreciation]] - [[There's a gap between your ability and your taste. That's why you know your work. isn't good enough... yet.]] - [[There's intrinsic value in creating for the sake of creating it]] - [[300 Atomic/700 Dailies/02.1 ZK/The way]] - [[The words don't have to be good. They just have to be yours.]] - [[This is why you don't feel inspired]] - [[To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.]] - [[To be on television, I had to push me +20%]] - [[To express yourself you have to know yourself]] - [[To feel music is to be connected to the conversation of the song]] - [[To hell with circumstances. I create opportunities.]] - [[Ultrazone]] - [[Useful is beautiful. Useless is not.]] - [[Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation]] - [[Very good advice by Christopher Lee]] - [[We marvel not at widgets one can buy...]] - [[What makes them great is the degree to which they use their skateboarding to individuate themselves]] - [[What you do or don't do is ultimately up to you]] - [[When to make vs. buy something - Ask Adam Savage]] - [[When you move, you are determined to move]] - [[When you reach someone with feeling, that's when you can play with less techniques and you end up playing more music.]] - [[While artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists]] - [[You can only do your best work if you're doing what you want to do and you're doing it the way you think it should be done.]] - [[You don't need permission to be creative, just like how you don't need permission to be yourself]] - [[You have 1000 bad drawings inside you. That's just you getting it out of your system.]] - [[Your best work emerges when you pursue what you love in your own way]] - [[Your workaround is your style]] - [[You write to remember. You write to forget.]]