Ultraist Studios Blog Journal

Dave Sim quote:

“Self-publishing for a living is somewhere on a sliding scale between extremely unlikely and totally impossible” *

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Here’s another Dave Sim quote that should be a Mantra:
Dave Sim’s Note From The President, Cerebus 183, June 1994

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Erik Larsen quotes:

“The difference between fast and slow artists is that fast ones are willing to live with work they’re not 100% happy with.” *

“People ask how I get so much stuff done–and it’s because I don’t play video games, watch TV or waste time on a lot of other stuff.” *

“Neal Adams said, ‘your style is everything you do wrong.’” *

Eminem lyrics:

“Cause I’m moving on, don’t worry about me
cause I’m gon be just fine without you, you’ll see.
There aint no-one on this Earth right now I’d much rather be
cause God-dammit I’m glad that I’m me.

I said if you could be where I’m at (bye bye)
you’d wanna be you too.
If you felt the way I feel
I bet you’d be in as good a mood as I am
but you don’t ’cause you just feel like you.” *

Tony Robbins quote:

“Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.” *

Hugh Macleod quote:

“Was it worth the cost? Not really. It never is. Van Gough once told his brother, ‘No painting ever sells for as much as it cost the artist to make it.’ I’ve yet to meet in the flesh any artist who could prove him wrong.” *

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Mark Millar quote:

“It can be soul-destroying writing stuff and not getting paid. That’s how I started. But necessity is a great thing. It forces you to be commercial. I think there’s a kind of literary Darwinism in evidence in all forms of media; it’s very much a case of the survival of the fittest. I hear people complaining about the system, but you have to totally embrace the system if you’re going to survive as a creative person; you have to love the idea of what you’re doing. If you stop loving it for a minute, it’s over.” *

This mantra goes well with this one and this one.
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J. Michael Straczynski quote:

“It’s never too late to become what you were supposed to be in the first place.” *

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Mark Twain quote:

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” *

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Seth Godin quote:

“The interesting question is: what about the world as it is would have to change for your idea to be important?

In the case of Readers Digest, the key thing that changed was the makeup of who was reading magazines. Most of the people (and it was a lot of people) who subscribed to the Digest didn’t read other magazines. And so comparing to other magazines made no sense, except to say, “this is so different from other magazines, the only way you’re going to succeed is by selling it to millions of people who don’t read those magazines.” And Starbucks had no chance if they were going to focus on the sort of person who bought coffee at Dunkin Donuts or a diner, and the iPad couldn’t possibly succeed if people were content to use computers the way they were already using them.

Keep that in mind the next time a gatekeeper or successful tastemaker explains why you’re going to fail.” *

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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?

Do you have an elevator pitch that reminds you that you’re a struggling fraud, certain to be caught and destined to fail? Are you marketing a perspective and an attitude of generosity? When you talk to yourself, what do you say? Is anyone listening?

You’ve learned through experience that frequency works. That minds can be changed. That powerful stories have impact.

I guess, then, the challenge is to use those very same tools on yourself.” *

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