The essential ingredients for creativity remain exactly the same for everybody: courage, enchantment, permission, persistence, trust – and those elements are universally accessible. Which does not mean that creative living is always easy; it merely means that creative living is always possible.
– from Big Magic book by Elizabeth Gilbert
Tag: Quotes from Big Magic book
Possessing a creative mind, after all …
Possessing a creative mind, after all, is something like having a border collie for a pet: It needs to work, or else it will cause you an outrageous amount of trouble. Give your mind a job to do, or else it will find a job to do, and you might not like the job it invents.
– from Big Magic book by Elizabeth Gilbert
Work hard, make the most of …
Work hard, make the most of your opportunities, and grow, grow, grow.
– from Big Magic book by Elizabeth Gilbert
Whatever you do, try not to …
Whatever you do, try not to dwell too long on your failures. […] Chop up that failure and use it for bait to try to catch another project. Someday it might all make sense to you – why you needed to go through this botched-up mess in order to land in a better place. Or maybe it will never make sense.
– from Big Magic book by Elizabeth Gilbert