Do NOT try to follow fashion

"But originality can't be fashionable,
because it hasn't as yet had the approval of the committee.
Do not try to follow fashion.

Be true to your subject and you will be far more likely to create
 something that is timeless.
That's where the true art lies."

from
< IT'S NOT HOW GOOD YOU ARE, IT'S HOW GOOD YOU WANT TO BE > by Paul Arden



Steve Jobs의 사망 소식을 접하면서
Paul Arden의 책에 나온 이 글귀가 맴돌았다.

평생 내가 하고 싶은 일을 하면서 살 수 있을까라는
자괴감이 들때마다 이런 글귀라도 누군가는 써놓았어야한다고 
중얼거리곤 한다. 

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. (...) Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important."  - Steve Jobs said in the 2005 Stanford speech.