"I've always had my own methods of dealing with [inspiration] and one of them is pressure. I only start work when I really cannot avoid it anymore. And it's not inspiration, it's sweat — perspiration..." Erik Spiekermann. [via Authentic Boredom]
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There is a saying that goes something like: "nothing sharpens the mind at night more than the thought of being hanged in the morning".
Substitute "being hanged" with "meeting the client for that big presentation" and there we are.
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don't we all? :)
It's even less motivating when we acknowledge that [some of] the big boys do the same