Austin Kleon Quotes

Amateurs are not afraid to make mistakes or look ridiculous in public. They're in love, so they don't hesitate to do work that others think of as silly or just plain stupid.

Austin Kleon

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• I have a very small public.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Small
  • Public
  • Very

• One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Words
  • Imagination

• The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • World
  • America
  • Democracy

• Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.

  

  B. B. King
  • Know
  • Like
  • Songs

• I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Comedy
  • Public
  • Servant

• When I became governor, I vowed to restore the public's trust.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Trust
  • Public
  • Restore

• I've never been someone that was sort of blessed with an innate talent of just being able to do things. I had to work at it and learn from mistakes.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Work
  • Blessed
  • Mistakes

• A collection of strong-minded individuals who have learned how to dismiss mistakes, disappointments and problems in their personal life make up a strong team. If the majority of the team have that then, as a unit, you are almost impossible to beat.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Life
  • Up
  • Strong

• When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live under a brutal dictatorship with ethnic and sectarian divisions. When we first got here, we made a lot of mistakes. We were like a blind man, trying to do the right thing but breaking a lot of things.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Man

• I love mixing amateurs and professionals.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Professionals
  • Mixing
  • Amateurs

• We all make mistakes, and we all need second chances. For youth in foster care, these mistakes are often purposeful - if not consciously so; a way to test the strength of a bond and establish trust in a new parent.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Trust
  • Mistakes
  • Strength

• Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • Time
  • Good
  • Done

• My life is just a series of mistakes and regrets of varying degrees.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Mistakes

• We took Infosys public. That was a nonstop three-week global roadshow.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Public
  • Global
  • Took

• We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Desire
  • Public
  • Expansion

• Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • American
  • Past
  • Lost

• One of the great joys of being a slip fielder who takes a catch is you are able to contribute to the bowler's success. Yes, you are putting yourself in the firing line if you stuff it up, but you must want to be in that position to make a difference, and recognise sometimes that you might make mistakes. There are no easy catches in the slips.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Up
  • Great
  • Success

• I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Public
  • Vice
  • Amusements

• He was one of the masters of the thriller and he really was one of the great signposts, because he took the spy thriller out of the gentility of the drawing room and into the back streets of Istanbul and where it all really happened, ... The Day of the Jackal.

  

  Frederick Forsyth
  • Drawing
  • Masters
  • Spy

• We try to bargain with God...I will follow you but don't touch my children, or my husband, don't give me cancer...We are afraid our surrender to God will unleash evil. But evil will come, because evil will come. We live in a broken world.

  

  Kay Warren
  • Children
  • Giving
  • Husband

• Everybody who knows Formula 1 knows McLaren and knows that it is the greatest team in Formula 1.

  

  Sergio Perez
  • Team
  • Greatest

• People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived.' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates, and society.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Freedom
  • Mom
  • Acting

• Amateurs are not afraid to make mistakes or look ridiculous in public. They're in love, so they don't hesitate to do work that others think of as silly or just plain stupid.

  

  Austin Kleon
  • Mistakes
  • Public
  • Amateurs