S Austin Quotes

Establishing and keeping a routine can be even more important than having a lot of time.

Art that only comes from the head isn't any good. Watch any good musician and you'll see what I mean.

Creative people need time to just sit around and do nothing.

Show your work, and when the right people show up, pay close attention to them, because they'll have a lot to show you.

Pretend to be making something until you actually make something.

Copying is about reverse-engineering.

School is one thing. Education is another. The two don’t always overlap. Whether you’re in school or not, it’s always your job to get yourself an education.

There's an intuition learned through our work. Teaching others doesn't mean they can just go out and replicate it.

Obituaries are like near-death experiences for cowards.

Enjoy your obscurity while it lasts.

Keep all your passions in your life.

It sounds a little extreme, but in this day and age, if your work isn't online, it doesn't exist.

You'll either find the answer or you'll come up with a better question.

The best way to get started on the path of sharing your work is to think about what you want to learn, and make a commitment to learning it in front of others.

We found the future, like birds fly into windows.

Every artist gets asked the question, 'Where do you get your ideas?' The honest artist answers, 'I steal them.'

Marriage is two people in love standing in the same bathroom

If you want fans, you have to be a fan first.

Do good work and share it with people.

So go on, get angry. But keep your mouth shut and go do your work.

Eat breakfast. Do some push-ups. Go for long walks. Get plenty of sleep.

Private-equity and hedge-fund guys typically come into a situation of mediocrity, where rapid change may result in a profit.

President Obama has shown he has the vision to support average consumers and taxpayers.

The Obama administration took rapid and decisive action to restructure GM and Chrysler. Within a fairly short period of time these companies were working effectively again.

As a businessman, I know President Obama understands what it takes to spark economic growth, because I have seen him in action.

She ( Margaret Thatcher )is democratic enough to talk down to anyone

Gordon Brown now bestrides politics and the media like the Colossus of Dunfermline. Whatever happened to Tony Blair?

Art is awkward until technique has become an unconscious habit.

If you handle truth carelessly, it will cut your fingers.

If you learn from a loss you have not lost.

The most dangerous savages live in cities.

The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death.

The Devil is not afraid to sit on an altar.

The living have their eyes opened by closing the eyes of the dead.

Wisdom is also a deeper consciousness of ignorance.

Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.

We smile at the women who are eagerly following the fashions in dress whilst we are as eagerly following the fashions in thought.

Worry is half impatience and half ignorance.

The difference between a human being ten years of age and one fifty years of age lies altogether in the matter of toys.

Partial justice may exist with hatred; full justice requires charity.

If you scratch some saints you will find the devil.

A man's life is like a well, not like a snake--it should be measured by its depth, not by its length.

There is more in the education of children than the everlasting iteration of the word "don't!"

The fear we throw about danger is always as disproportionate as a paternal shirt on an infant.

The swing of art is circular, from form to formalism, from formalism to formlessness, from formlessness to form again.

We should thank God that He did not give us the power of hearing through walls; otherwise there would be no such thing as friendship.

The reason we constantly discover new truth in Shakespeare is that his complete understanding of the particular includes the universal.

Many a man wins glory for prudence by seeking advice, then seeking advice as to what advice would be best to take, and finally following appetite.

Suspicion is an owl that flies when the light is bad and catches only vermin for food.

Happiness and unhappiness differ as a bucket hammered from gold differs from one pressed in tin ... Each carries the same water.