Austin Kleon Quotes
Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don't come out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes. We learn by copying.
Quotes to Explore
-
Learn from your dreams what you lack.
-
Appropriate assessments are a crucial part of effectively educating students. But they only measure a narrow segment of what kids need to learn.
-
I'm pretty obsessed with Sara Bareilles. She is so talented, and I feel like I would learn so much from her.
-
You don't just become number one because you sing like everybody else. There is something different you bring to the table. Make sure you are constantly getting into the newest technologies. Learn the history of what you do, and always respect the ones who came before you.
-
The congressmen and senators used to go have a drink in D.C. They would disagree all day long, but they would find that time to sit down and learn about each other personally. I think that's totally wiped out; I don't think it really exists anymore.
-
I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.
-
Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
-
L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.
-
Your body is a machine. Learn the right way to take care of it.
-
Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.
-
We can learn from everybody, man.
-
For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.
-
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
-
You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.
-
It wasn't such a pleasant experience. We went through 14 hours with contractions every two minutes, no epidural, no nothing. Every two minutes, I would pass out. I went to the hospital on Saturday, and Levi was born on Monday.
-
I think, for every phase of your life, you take something out of it, you learn from it, you grow from it. You just have to try to take what you can from it and then move on to the next phase of your life to be better.
-
Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteria can learn new tricks when you're not looking.
-
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
-
We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we come, bloodied and squalling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there's only one direction. And time is its only measure.
-
U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.
-
When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.
-
It was never my goal to be an actor.
-
The reason that the unions and the other stakeholders have not cut a deal with the automakers is because they believe the federal government is going to bail them out.
-
Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don't come out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes. We learn by copying.
