Joey Cofone > Quotes

“thinking up limits that aren’t even there.”
― Joey Cofone, The Laws of Creativity: Unlock Your Originality and Awaken Your Creative Genius

“As we grow up, society tends to ostracize those who deviate from the norm.”
― Joey Cofone, The Laws of Creativity: Unlock Your Originality and Awaken Your Creative Genius

“calling someone weird is society’s way of banging them into conformity.”
― Joey Cofone, The Laws of Creativity: Unlock Your Originality and Awaken Your Creative Genius

“The Law of Origin”
― Joey Cofone, The Laws of Creativity: Unlock Your Originality and Awaken Your Creative Genius

“Picasso intuitively understood when he said, “Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up.”
― Joey Cofone, The Laws of Creativity: Unlock Your Originality and Awaken Your Creative Genius

“Foster a mindset of self-acceptance, one that goes against the grain, that’s willing to stand out in order to stand up and be heard.”
― Joey Cofone, The Laws of Creativity: Unlock Your Originality and Awaken Your Creative Genius

“Being creative isn’t a magical power. It isn’t a talent. It’s a skill— one that can be developed if we stop fearing and start understanding it.”
― Joey Cofone, The Laws of Creativity: Unlock Your Originality and Awaken Your Creative Genius

“We keep our uniqueness on the inside and wear masks that fit the uniforms of each time and place.”
― Joey Cofone, The Laws of Creativity: Unlock Your Originality and Awaken Your Creative Genius

“The Laws of Mindset”
― Joey Cofone, The Laws of Creativity: Unlock Your Originality and Awaken Your Creative Genius

“There is no box. There never was. Like money and time, the “box” is just a construct made by man.”
― Joey Cofone, The Laws of Creativity: Unlock Your Originality and Awaken Your Creative Genius

“The Law of Expression Embrace the parts of you that others call weird. Don’t hide what makes you different. Allow those parts to float to the top and be seen by all. Your uniqueness is what makes your creations original, effective, and memorable.”
― Joey Cofone, The Laws of Creativity: Unlock Your Originality and Awaken Your Creative Genius

“Weird means you’re different. Different means you’re unique. And unique means you are original.”
― Joey Cofone, The Laws of Creativity: Unlock Your Originality and Awaken Your Creative Genius

“From this moment forward, you’re going to stop worrying about how to think outside of it because that’s a fool’s errand—”
― Joey Cofone, The Laws of Creativity: Unlock Your Originality and Awaken Your Creative Genius

“The Law of Disruption You have every right to challenge, question, and improve upon the ideas that are handed to you. At some point, these ideas evolved from and innovated on what came before them. It follows, then, that they themselves will eventually be replaced.”
― Joey Cofone, The Laws of Creativity: Unlock Your Originality and Awaken Your Creative Genius

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Joey Cofone, The Laws of Creativity: Unlock Your Originality and Awaken Your Creative Genius

“Every person discussed in this book is, without a doubt, weird. They dared to be different, and that difference allowed them to make a difference.”
― Joey Cofone, The Laws of Creativity: Unlock Your Originality and Awaken Your Creative Genius

“The logical self wants you to learn as much as you can, to prepare in every which way, so you can make something great right out of the gate. But that’s not possible because your logical self, separately, also knows that no one gets things right on the first try. For some reason, unfortunately, the logical self illogically separates the knowledge it has, and becomes disappointed when you don’t come out with something perfect on the first try.”
― Joey Cofone, The Laws of Creativity: Unlock Your Originality and Awaken Your Creative Genius

“Every time they told you that pink isn’t for boys or artists don’t make money or a thousand other this-is-how-it’s-done’s, they put you in that box. And, because that’s how society operates, you eventually learned to climb into that box all by yourself.”
― Joey Cofone, The Laws of Creativity: Unlock Your Originality and Awaken Your Creative Genius

“Instead of seeing possibilities, thoughts of limitations are the first to jump out.”
― Joey Cofone, The Laws of Creativity: Unlock Your Originality and Awaken Your Creative Genius