get every idea out

The way to live is to create. Die empty. Get every idea out of your head and into reality.

It's easy to lose yourself in consumption. Creating is the opposite – the more you make, the more you discover what's inside you. Here are some more quotes by Derek Sivers from "How to Live: Create":

Embrace what's weird about you, and use it to create. Never think you need to be normal or perfect. Flawless people don't need to make art.

Imitate your heroes. It's not copying because it won't be the same. Your imitation of anything will be unrecognizably warped by your own twisted perspective. Most creations are new combinations of existing ideas. Originality just means hiding your sources.

And by the way, creating doesn't have to mean only art. I view company building as deeply creative and fulfilling.

To create is to bring something into existence that wasn't there before. It could be a conversation, the solution to a problem, a note to a friend, the rearrangement of furniture in a room, a new route home to avoid a traffic jam. What you make doesn't have to be witnessed, recorded, sold, or encased in glass for it to be a work of art.

Rick Rubin from "The Creative Act"