If I'd waited to know who I was or what I was about before I started b…

Austin Kleon
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If I'd waited to know who I was or what I was about before I started being creative, well, I'd still be sitting around trying to figure myself out instead of making things. In my experience, it's in the act of making things and doing our work that we figure out who we are. ✨ Austin Kleon (2012). Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative, p.27, Workman Publishing
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