“Perfectionism: the need to be right instead of being right.”
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“All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer.”
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“The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.”
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“You will be fierce. You will fearless. And you will make work you know in your heart is not as good as you want it to be.”
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“Force yourself through the work, force the skills to comes; that's the hardest phase; I feel like your problem is that you're trying to judge all things in abstract before you do them. That is your tragic mistake.”
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