Ultraist Studios Blog Journal

Seth Godin quote: “Self marketing might be the most important kind What story do you tell yourself about yourself? I know that marketers tell stories. We tell them to clients, prospects, bosses, suppliers, partners and voters. If the stories resonate and spread and seduce, then we succeed. But what about the story you tell yourself? [...]

Oscar Wilde quote: “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.” * -

Hugh MacLeod quote: “The sovereignty you have over your work will inspire far more people than the actual content ever will. How your own sovereignty inspires other people to find their own sovereignty, their own sense of freedom and possibility, will give the work far more power than the work’s objective merits ever will.” * [...]

Seth Godin quote: “There’s not a lot to say about the Cul-de-Sac except to realize that it exists and to embrace the fact that when you find one, you need to get off it, fast. That’s because a dead end is keeping you from doing something else. The opportunity cost of investing your life in [...]

Dave Sim quote: “Drawing comics is the Great White Shark of devouring time.” * -

Rolf Potts quote: “Start to see time as your truest form of wealth.” * -

Matt Jones quote: “Get excited and make things!” * -

Seth Godin quote: “If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either.  Part of leadership (a big part of it, actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time.  Long enough that the critics realize that you’re going to get there one way or another… so they follow.” [...]

Neil Gaiman quote: “So far I’ve not yet gotten to the point where I’ve ever written anything, in the last twenty something years, for money. And that’s only because the very very first book I did, published in October 1984, a biography of Duran Duran, was done entirely for money. And I was very young [...]

Grant Morrison quote: “I’ve been reading about the scientific theory of emergence, which is basically that if you get a bunch of simple things together, and you get enough of them, they start to form something complex. Like, a single sponge cell is completely stupid, but a bunch of sponge cells can actually do stuff, [...]