Theme 24: Chance

Make someone's day. Share your voice. There’s power in your voice.

You have everything you need right now to do something that makes the world more awesome.

Opportunities are all over the place, we just don't see them!

For starters, you've got to have a dream...

I find it fascinating that with the same thing you can totally change the perception.

The magic of it, I think, is even if you have great people, great things, great ideas, you don't know what's going to work.

No tomar las cosas tan enserio y todo fruto de nuestra habilidad sea por la creación, no por impresionar al receptor

Para encontrar una oportunidad, hay que hacer un ejercicio personal de reconocimiento

Keep going, keep going, keep going.

Who ever said you are your own worst critic never posted to youtube.

Haters gonna hate, but huggers are gonna hug.

People just needed somebody to love them. In a little bitty two and a half minute video.

If everybody in the world would just stop and listen to a kid today, we would live a little differently.

Chance is not anything that happens to you. It's something you give to yourself. But you have got to ask for it. You've got to listen for it. And you shouldn't cut yourself off from it by over-analyzing and over-optimizing your life.

You have an opportunity to influence your own destiny. And free will is shaped by everything you do and have seen and all the people you've interacted with.

Make things a little bit uncomfortable for yourself sometimes so that you have to pay more attention.

Chance becomes this cumulative thing and not, you know, a lightning bolt from the sky.

I think the myth of the lone genius has been pretty well debunked at this point. And while there are rare geniuses who are brilliant all on their own, the game isn't really over for the rest of us.

When you're feeling stuck, don't look for the end goal. Just keep exploring. And explore with people, if you can.

Chance happens when you say what you want.

Being given a chance is different than taking that chance for yourself.

Labels are a very limiting kind of thing, even if you happen to choose those labels yourself. And I think the problem is that labels represent a bunch of nouns, and work feels very much like a verb.

“Sit down with a little damn faith. Do the thing you’re doing. Let go of your plans for it, and trust that you on your stupid little own will actually be okay.”

Say no to regret and yes to taking a chance.

A hobby is a profoundly sacred thing.

Do what you love and do it with people who you love to be around.

I'm a professional amateur.

Our creativity is the source of our vitality.

Yo necesito un espacio donde la gente me diga ¡Che!, las ideas son peligrosas.

Cuando caminamos el cuerpo está haciendo una de las cosas más maravillosas: aferrarse y despegarse del mundo simultáneamente.

If you follow your dreams, you will end up eating popsicles with David Suzuki

You can really break the world down into two types of people. Those who don’t mind going through customs and those who do.

Chance is fuzzy. It doesn't really work with optimization; it depends on interpretation.

I don't trust theories; I only trust experiences.

Do it! Then find out if you want to do it again or not.

Letting go of who you are is crucial to taking a chance.

Everyone is capable of moving hearts and minds.

Believe in yourself, don’t be afraid of risk, what’s the worst that can happen?

I’m actually just doing the things I love.

As I’m happier, consequently, I seem to be attracting more chance.

“Yeah I really love your work but your accent is a bit strong innit?” So I didn’t get the job but I vowed to keep my fucking accent as strong as possible from then on.

Todas las vivencias buenas y malas son las que han hecho una mejor versión de mí

Que dejo a los demás, que dejo al mundo para que valga la pena que hoy yo estoy vivo

I'm a champion of the ridiculous

This is a point in which the story changes from things that happen to me to things that happen because of me.

É saber entender o que as oportunidades podem nos dar no futuro

Drawing is 90% looking, 10% drawing.

There might be some goodness in the randomness and the chance, there might be sadness when it's unexpected or joy when it's unexpected or images (that's probably the best thing), just images that you could never dream up...

If you take chances - one of the things I've learned is that you've got to give chances! It does work like that. You have to take some and then give some.

Take a chance on how awesome people can be.

Treat everybody like it's their birthday.

Whoever said you're your own worst critic, never posted a YouTube video.

Haters gonna hate. Huggers gonna hug.

Take a chance and hug the haters.

Life is short, take chances, collect experiences.

What you get is avoiding the state of would've-could've-should've, which to me is the biggest driving force I have everyday.

(A bajillion of effort) x (the chances you take) = ultimate life success, fortune, eternal happiness.

Si balanceás estar preparado con la serendipia, prototipás rápido y te armás un network lo suficientemente fuerte: Asumí cualquier tipo de riesgo. Lo mejor que pueda pasar, va a pasar.

'Chance', solito en casa, atrás de la compu, no sé qué es.

Cuando bajamos de la idea a lo tangible, rompemos con la inercia.

Take more chances, make more art, and launch more often.

The biggest chance we can take, is to not take enough creative chances.

Every work we make, makes us.

Our fear is a creative ally that we should treasure and befriend.

Our creativity is the source of our vitality. The more we make, the more we put it out there, the more alive we feel, the happier we are, and the better the world is.

"Let’s describe a demanded person. It’s a young person, well-educated, with work experience 1-3 years, with creative mind, but very structured and with understanding of finance and budgets"

"You should learn to translate your ideas into business language"

Focus on who you are, not what you're not.

Feel free to let your freak flag fly.

INACTIVITY kills INNOVATION

Tener tiempo te permite tener más experiencias. Sin experiencias la vida es plana, sin tiempo no hay experiencias

No esperes estar en una situación límite para ir en busca de lo que estas destinado a hacer

Our fear is a creative ally that we should treasure and befriend.

If we only stay in that ordinary world and you always refuse the call to adventure, the only emotion that you are ever really feel is fear

If eyes are the window to the soul, ears are the fucking DOOR.

Productivity equals a huge idea and not enough time to do it.

Si vous êtes entourés de gens qui n'ont pas eu de famille, donnez-la leur, parce que c'est ce qui donne le plus de chance dans la vie.

Art just gets to be weird, provoking you, crazy or beautiful. We as creatives actually have to try to make something happen.

The thing that scares us is what we lean into.

It's unsafe to play it safe— and I've got a chart proving that!

At the end of the day it's not how many hours you work, it's your output.

It's not that creatives are insane - it's that we're passionate about weird shit, and you need to celebrate that weird shit that we care about.

Creativity is not a department. It's actually a culture.

lo importante es el enclave de valores. A mí me importa no ser un chanta de verdad... forzar este movimiento porque necesito avanzar.

el chanta muchas veces fuerza una realidad que no es

es verdad que soy dramaturgo, pero es verdad también que no lo soy

nos lo vendía con una promesa que sabíamos que era mentira pero a todos nos hacía sonreír

el fracaso es el único que genera movimiento

son pequeñas convicciones que no tienen demostración

Che, vamos a fracasar. Bueno, ¿cómo lo vamos a hacer?

gente ordinaria haciendo cosas extraordinarias

es imperdonable fracasar haciendo lo que uno sabe hacer

para hacerlo bien no estamos todos preparados, pero para hacerlo mal sí. Y esto nos une.

los temas de Brecht no superan la barrera de la realidad teatral

lo fundamental en el teatro es transformar todos los problemas en una oportunidad de creación

yo necesito espacios donde me digan «che, las ideas son peligrosas»

nosotros no hacemos personajes, nosotros somos el personaje y eso es lo interesante.

los invito a pasar de pensar el equilibrio o la búsqueda de un movimiento, hacia los espacios de tensión.

la tensión se da generalmente por el enclave en dos espacios, no necesariamente opuestos

Trabajo duro + sueños + dedicación = éxito

El dolor es parte de mi historia, y me ha formado pero eso no me define, si no todas las situaciones y vivencias buenas y malas, me han hecho una mejor persona hoy.

¿Qué dejo al mundo? Para que valga la pena de que hoy, yo, estoy vivo

Lo de dentro lo tienes que construir tu, no depende de como te ves, si no de que traes para ofrecer al mundo. No se trata sólo de buscar reconocimiento.

Cuando ya se que quiero, solo tengo que decir yo puedo, y me lo tengo que repetir todos los días.

Limites son los miedos. El ingrediente secreto para vencerlos es intentarlo.

Son cositas, son detalles, es desde la mente. Desde el creértelo, desde saber cuáles son tus sueños, enfocarte e ir hacia ellos.

No esperes a estar en una situación límite para ir en busca de lo que estás destinado a hacer.

Hoy, aquí, tienes la oportunidad de replantearte lo que estás haciendo para seguir tus sueños.

Tengo un deseo que nadie tiene en este mundo, y tengo unas habilidades que nadie tiene en este mundo, entonces si las junto, tengo un proyecto de vida, y eso es lo que quiero buscar.

Ya no quiero ser perfecta, quiero ser yo, auténtica, quiero hacer las cosas como a mí me emocionan. Únicas.

Ya no quiero ser perfecto, quiero ser yo.

Encontré la verdadera belleza, la que puedo ver en otros, más la que construyo en mí.

He superado tantas cosas, estoy viva, puedo competir con cualquiera que está vivo.

Siempre tienes miles de cosas, y no te ves a ti, y no te la crees tú...

Dejé de ver a los demás y de compararme con otros en los castings.

Te pones a agradecer todo lo que sí tienes, y es la misma decisión de cada mañana.

Tuve que aprender dos cosas: Una, es a decidir si me iba a parar todos los días a quejarme ... O concentrarte, porque la mente es tan poderosa que te cree todo lo que digas.

Aprendí, me regresaron al principio.

Yo quiero vivir, y tengo esa palabrita que se llama fe, que se que todo va a salir bien.

Solo tenía una frase en mi cabeza, que me dio mucha fuerza, pero de ahí en fuera, no sabía nada...

You never really know what's going to work and kind of the magic of it I think is that even if you have great people, great things, great ideas... you don't know what's going to work

Be around people whose games are elevated.

Oftentimes, we live and we go through life just accepting things for the way they are. And oftentimes, all we have to do is make a decision to change.

All you need is love.

When you start taking chances, it becomes easier and easier. Cultivate it.

'Chance' adds dimension and texture to our lives.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself find people with good ideas and help them change things for you.

There is the first idea, and it can be good, and it can be the one that you go with - but it’s important to keep pushing.

Each project takes forever...imagine yourself dating someone for four years but it's not dating one person. You're dating 15 people at the same time and you have to give them personal attention. You can't tell them what the other person is about.

Mentoring to me just wasn't about this one-on-one, it was about this community. It was about the community like CreativeMornings. You show up to enough of these things, then you start networking, you meet people, maybe you get jobs, maybe you like hook up or whatever. Things happen when you're in a community.

That itching feeling of when you know that you should be doing something more with your life, you should be doing it. You're doing yourself, and the universe, and your community, and your family a disservice if you play small.

Take more chances. Make more art. Launch more often.

Our fear is a creative ally that we should treasure, and befriend, and become really intimate with on a daily, weekly, monthly basis.

If you are one of those people who doesn't cross the finish line, you are missing out on the very gift of making things...you become the person you were meant to be.

Every work we make makes us

The most meaningful and memorable moments of my life were brought on by moments of full body terror, so maybe I should start paying attention to them.

The very nature of our work as creative people forces us to stand outside of the norm - to step away from the status quo.

You are robbing yourself of the greatest thrill of your life - the thrill of putting your creative work out into the world.

Está bueno evaluar proyectos basándote en 3 cosas: Diversión, Dinero y Prestigio. Y sólo 1 de las 3 patitas puede ser débil.

Prestigio no son medallas. Prestigio es el impulso para abrir más puertas.

Las oportunidades y el crecimiento llegan cuando entendés que tal vez estás diciendo que sí a cosas que en ese momento creés que no sabés hacer.

You know everything? You scare the sh*t out of me.