Sam Bennett > Quotes

“As long as your work remains unwritten in your head, it has no effect on anyone. Except you. And not in a good way. Once you let your idea out of the hermetically sealed vault of your brain and out into the fresh air, it will immediately start to evolve. The minute you get it down on a piece of paper, it will change.
And once you let it out of the house — once someone else gets to experience it — everything is changed.
You are changed. The project is changed. The audience is changed.
That’s the alchemy of art.”
― Sam Bennett, Get It Done: From Procrastination to Creative Genius in 15 Minutes a Day

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. —”
― Sam Bennett, Get It Done: From Procrastination to Creative Genius in 15 Minutes a Day

“Your fear does not get to make your decisions for you. Lower”
― Sam Bennett, Get It Done: From Procrastination to Creative Genius in 15 Minutes a Day

“But goodism knows when to stop. Unlike perfectionism, goodism just wants things to be as good as they can be. Goodism is reasonable. Goodism allows room for a good night’s sleep, three square meals a day, and the ability to concentrate on other people from time to time. You know, like your spouse and your friends and your children. Goodism”
― Sam Bennett, Get It Done: From Procrastination to Creative Genius in 15 Minutes a Day

“Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. — Andy Warhol Step”
― Sam Bennett, Get It Done: From Procrastination to Creative Genius in 15 Minutes a Day