U.S. artist and writer
Austin Kleon
The vampires in your life can’t be cured. Your best bet is to stay away from them. As Lynda Barry said, “You cannot fix Dracula by trying to convince him to just party in the sun with you.”
In this age of information overload and abundance, those who get ahead will be the folks who figure out what to leave out, so they can concentrate on what’s important to them. Devoting yourself to something means shutting out other things. What makes you interesting isn’t just what you’ve experienced, but also what you haven’t experienced.
“How to Steal Like an Artist (and 9 Other Things Nobody Told Me),” Austin Kleon’s blog, March 30, 2011.