“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away. The more the outside world tries to reinforce an image of you, the harder it is to continue to be an artist, which is why a lot of times, artists have to say, “Bye. I have to go. I’m going crazy and I’m getting out of here.” And they go and hibernate somewhere. Maybe later they re-emerge a little differently.”
― Steve Jobs
― Steve Jobs
“It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
― The Winter of Our Discontent
― The Winter of Our Discontent
“One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.”
― Steve Jobs
― Steve Jobs
“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
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