Michelle Clement > Michelle's Quotes

“Halt you villains! Unhand that science!”
― N.D. Stevenson

“It is a natural process to become your own person, to find your voice, convictions, and opinions, and to challenge and shed the Shoulds that no longer serve your evolving beliefs.”
― Elle Luna, The Crossroads of Should and Must: Find and Follow Your Passion

“If you’re not prioritizing the things you say you care about, consider the possibility that you don’t actually care about those things.”
― Elle Luna, The Crossroads of Should and Must: Find and Follow Your Passion

“It is here, standing at the crossroads of Should and Must, that we feel the enormous reality of our fears, and this is the moment when many of us decide against following our intuition, turning away from that place where nothing is guaranteed, nothing is known, and everything is possible.”
― Elle Luna, The Crossroads of Should and Must: Find and Follow Your Passion

“You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“Read deeply. Stay open. Continue to wonder.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

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― Jeffrey Brown, Darth Vader and Son

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got.”
― Sabrina Ward Harrison, Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself

“The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing for the rest of your life.”
― Jessica Hische

“I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.”
― Edward Gorey

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.”
― Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art

“The one thing you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked…that’s the moment you may be starting to get it right.”
― Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art

“Often you will discover that the harder you work, and the more wisely you work, the luckier you get. But there is luck, and it helps.”
― Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art

“Confidence doesn’t come from knowing you’re right—it comes from being okay with failing.”
― Mike Monteiro, Design Is a Job

“When you travel, you're forced to have new thoughts. "Is this alley safe?" "Is this the right bus?" "Was this meat ever a house pet?" It doesn't even matter what the new thoughts are, it feels so good to just have some variety. And it's a reboot for your brain. I can feel the neurons making new connections again with new problems to solve, clawing their way back to their nimbler, younger days.”
― Kristin Newman, What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding