Hugh Macleod Quotes

#1. You have to find your own shtick. A Picasso always looks like Picasso painted it. Hemingway always sounds like Hemingway. A Beethoven symphony always sounds like a Beethoven symphony. Part of being a master is learning how to sing in nobody else's voice but your own.

Hugh MacLeod

#2. THE SEX & CASH THEORY - The creative person basically has two kinds of jobs: One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Sometimes the task in hand covers both bases, but not often. This tense duality will always play center stage. It will never be transcended.

Hugh MacLeod

#3. Don't take this the wrong way but I care more and I'm a better online friend than you. I also spend way to much time online.

Jim Gaffigan

#4. I keep a great organiser, I try to keep my priorities in the right place.

Diana Ross

#5. Writer's block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you should feel the need to say something. Why? If you have something to say, then say it. If not, enjoy the silence while it lasts. The noise will return soon enough.

Hugh MacLeod

#6. GOOD IDEAS ALTER THE BALANCE IN RELATIONSHIPS. THAT IS WHY GOOD IDEAS ARE ALWAYS INITIALLY RESISTED.

Hugh MacLeod

#7. Nobody can tell you if what you're doing is good, meaningful or worthwhile. The more compelling the path, the more lonely it is.

Hugh MacLeod

#8. The hunger will give you everything and it will take from you, everything. It will cost you your life, and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it. But knowing this, of course, is what ultimately sets you free.

Hugh MacLeod

#9. The sovereignty you have over your work will inspire far more people than the actual content ever will.

Hugh MacLeod

#10. The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care.

Hugh MacLeod

#11. Before, we may have taken part in it without even thinking it was American Jewish, but in this case, I think, you have now perhaps pointed us in a direction of a new interest in this repertoire.

Neville Marriner

#12. You do not own the molecules. They are stardust. They belong to God. What you do own is your soul. Nobody can take that away from you.

Hugh MacLeod

#13. If you're creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your company needs you more than it ever did. And now your company can no longer afford to pretend that isn't the case. So dust off your horn and start tooting.

Hugh MacLeod

#14. The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does.

Hugh MacLeod

#15. They're only crayons. You didn't fear them in Kindergarten, why fear them now?

Hugh MacLeod

#16. Remain humble. Stay positive. Create your own luck. Be nice. Be polite.

Hugh MacLeod

#17. Sometimes a bit of compassion and decency is reason enough to do something out of the ordinary.

Ariel Lawhon

#18. The paradox of modernism is, writers make the decision to work with the continuous present, and to work with ... stream of consciousness, as it's called, for emotional reasons, and the main emotional reason is verisimilitude. I mean, this is what surprises people: Life is not in the simple past.

Will Self

#19. The thing is to be able to outlast the trends.

Paul Anka

#20. If your business plan depends on suddenly being "discovered" by some big shot, your plan will probably fail. Nobody suddenly discovers anything. Things are made slowly and in pain.

Hugh MacLeod

#21. Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it.

Hugh MacLeod

#22. If you try to make something just to fit your uninformed view of some hypothetical market, you will fail. If you make something special and powerful and honest and true, you will succeed.

Hugh MacLeod

#23. Success consists in the climb.

Elbert Hubbard

#24. I put my finger to my lips to shush Jack. He put a finger to his lips, too, but used the middle one instead of the pointer.

Kiersten White

#25. Your idea doesn't have to be big. It just has to be yours alone. The more the idea is yours alone, the more freedom you have to do something really amazing. The more amazing, the more people will click with your idea. The more people click with your idea, the more it will change the world.

Hugh MacLeod

#26. Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle.

Hugh MacLeod

#27. Boring' can be a lot of fun. Especially if it's on your own terms.

Hugh MacLeod

#28. He stuff you learn beforehand will never be one-tenth as useful as the stuff you learn the hard way, on the job.

Hugh MacLeod

#29. If you accept the pain, it cannot hurt you.

Hugh MacLeod

#30. Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.

Giacomo Casanova

#31. I work extremely hard doing what I love, mainly to ensure that I don't have to work extremely hard doing what I hate.

Hugh MacLeod

#32. Indifference is the acid of life. It erodes all the spirit that's in us and makes us useless to anyone else. We all have to stand for something, or our souls cease to breathe.

Joan D. Chittister

#33. When your dreams becoming reality, they're no longer your dreams.

Hugh MacLeod

#34. If you're looking at a blank piece of paper and nothing comes to you, then go do something else. Writer's block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you should feel the need to say something.

Hugh MacLeod

#35. To delight in the law of the Lord is to find our source of joy outside of ourselves.

Dillon Burroughs

#36. You probably know that you are not the only man who has had to sacrifice immediate monetary remuneration for the sake of gathering knowledge, for in truth your experience has been that of every philosopher from the time of Socrates down to the present.

Napoleon Hill

#37. The best Evil Plan offers something much more for people
a chance to buy into an idea that matters, and share it with people who matter to them.

Hugh MacLeod

#38. Have a story. And make sure it's a good one. A DAMN good one.

Hugh MacLeod