P.F. Project
- Choose Life (Trainspotting)
Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing spirit-crushing game shows stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing you last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life.
Twyla Tharp
- The Creative Habit- Chapter 10 "Ruts and Grooves"
When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it. ... When optimism turns to pessimism during the creative process, you are in a serious, dangerous rut. So serious that it can become the mother rut - depression. Forget spinning your wheels; the wheels have come off the wagon. Some people work their way out of it. Some people take a rest. Some people need the help of a doctor. I don't have the cure for this one.
Twyla Tharp
- The Creative Habit- Chapter 7 "Accidents will Happen"
A plan is like the scaffolding around a building. When you're putting up the exterior shell, the scaffolding is vital. But once the shell is in place and you start work on the interior, the scaffolding disappears. That's how I think of planning. It has to be sufficiently thoughtful and solid to get the work up and standing straight, but it cannot take over as you toil away on the interior guts of a piece. Transforming your ideas rarely goes according to plan.
