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Stop letting others define you! Stop letting others dilute you! You weren’t created to live their life; you were created to live yours - so LIVE it! You can reignite that fire within and bring the passion back into your goals, dreams, ambitions, careers, and relationships by reclaiming control of your own life. Be unapologetically YOU!
Steve Maraboli (via myquotelibrary)
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There are, however, those who tip the scale the other way – those who put the cart before the horse; those for whom “being a creative” is a label they look to project more than prove. These people are the turgid plague of pseudo-artistes that have come to dominate the creative world.
Socialites, sycophants, scenesters and nightclub promoters masquerading as writers, photographers and designers. It is all about the Instagram photos of the iBooks, at the chic cafes, with the novel and notepad curiously just in frame. It is about raping the precious commodity of creativity for one’s own notoriety, and turning it into an insipid quote to post on someone’s wall.
from Nick Clarke’s article THE PROBLEM WITH ‘CREATIVES’ on T-Squat (via jirat)
The #1 reason why people give up so fast is because they tend to look at how far they still have to go, instead of how far they have come.
