Kevin Focke
32 quotes
"It is infinitely easier to experience an indescribable experience than to describe it."
"Life summed up with a marketing slogan: Limited Edition!"
"Focke's razor: Never attribute to plot holes that which is adequately explained by miracles."
"When I’m passionate about something I strive for excellence, judging whether or not I achieved it is up to the audience."
"In my opinion, works of art should be viewed as gifts; something precious given from a point of empathy, where personal enrichment is vastly superior to the value of the gift, and the giver begs for nothing but for the gift to shine on its own."
"Art has simple founding principles: Less is more, more or less; fill in the blanks with no filler."
"Storytellers are master manipulators transforming non-reality (grounded in reality) into vicarious experience."
"Relatable escapism can only be achieved using facets of the real world."
"Love yourself’ the social horde spouts from on high, mere moments later they frown at a bypassing narcissist."
"Money changes people. This process is more commonly known as trading."
"When you aim for the stars even if you fail you’ll be a falling star, and that’s wish-fulfilling material."
"Trial. (Fail.) (Succeed.) Repeat."
"Progress is hard, achievements are easy, and giving up is easier still."
"I think the suicide rate is so high among writers because we force ourselves to stand still, take an outsider’s perspective, and realise how quickly a life passes by, and how futile we are. The exhilarating upside is that at a moment’s glance all your worries fade away, and you can work on making the most of it."
"You won't know how much you’ll miss someone until they’re gone. Go give them a big hug while you have the chance."
"Jealousy is projected self-pity."
"I don’t experience writer’s block, I only have periods of severe writer’s diarrhoea; an incoherent mess of unfitting words placed in random sentences. Luckily, I can usually separate the shit from “the shit” later on."
"Be creative, be innovative, consume what everyone consumes and make it fresh!"
"Death is the first and final entry in the book of this life."
"It’s a sad fact that some people are only remembered once they’re dead."
"Bloated software causes IT stress farts."
"Bad business does not revolve around missing crossroads. It revolves around roundabouts."
"A coalescence of verbose convolution, veering on imperceptibility, impinges upon a plain proclamation an apparent profundity."
"Writing complex characters is the penultimate exercise in empathy."
"-The burden of existence is bestowed upon birth.-The gift of existence is bestowed upon birth.Choose wisely, your life (and potential others' life) depend on it."