Kevin Kelly

Draw to discover what you see.
Write to discover what you think.

If you are not falling down occasionally
you are just coasting.

Separate the processes of creating
from improving.
You can’t write and edit
or sculpt and polish
or make and analyze at the same time.
If you do, the editor stops the creator.
While you invent, don’t select.
While you sketch, don’t inspect.
While you write the first draft, don’t reflect.
At the start, the creator mind must be
unleashed from judgment.

This is true:
It’s hard to cheat an honest person.

A vacation + a disaster = an adventure.

Forgiveness is accepting
the apology you will never get.

To cultivate a habit switch your
language from “I can or can’t do”
to “I do or don’t do.”
You shift the weight
from a wavering choice
to an unwavering identity.

When crises strike
don’t waste them.
No problems, no progress.

That thing that made you weird as a kid
could make you great as an adult
—if you don’t lose it.

The main thing
is to keep the main thing
the main thing.