Louis C.K.

 Source: https://creativelyy.com/louis-ck/

Learning From Failure

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The thing that you learn the most that will help you do things you can’t do yet is how to recover from failure. If you can recover from things not going well, then the worst that happens is this is going to be a total wreck but I know how to recover.

Interview – Charlie Rose – Louis CK 04/25/2016

The only way to learn that stuff is by failing; all this is learned by having bad times. You have to be willing to have a bad time. People that need to feel like a star and like they’re succeeding every time will not ever get better. But if you are willing to feel bad, do badly, have a stale, boring version of yourself out in front of everybody, you can find this stuff in the muck that’s very useful.

Interview – Louis CK Rolling Stone Cover 2013

 Writing Process For Louie

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When it’s time to write, I have one computer that has no ability to get on the Internet. Because the ability to just move your finger less than a millimeter and be looking straight into someone’s pussy or at the new Porsche, or a whole movie – To Kill a Mockingbird, let’s just sit here and watch the whole thing! – it’s too much. So if you put a couple of moves between you and that, you’ve got a fighting chance. When I hit a stopping moment in what I’m writing, a moment of agitation – that itch always leads to a brand-new thing, to inspiration. But if you bail out and buy a product online, you’re robbing yourself. It’s terrible, so I sit there: “Fuck, fuck.” The worst thing happening to this generation is that they’re taking discomfort away from themselves.

Interview – Louis CK Rolling Stone Cover 2013

 Sadness

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I don’t mind feeling sad. Sadness is a lucky thing to feel. I have the same amount of happy and sad as anybody else. I just don’t mind the sad part as much; it’s amazing to have those feelings. I’ve always felt that way. I think that looking at how random and punishing life can be, it’s a privilege. There’s so much to look at, there’s so much to observe, and there’s a lot of humor in it. I’ve had sad times, I’ve had some hard times, and I have a lot of things to be sad about, but I’m pretty happy right now.

Interview – Louis CK Rolling Stone Cover 2013

You Should Be Able To Make A Joke About Anything

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I remember saying one time that saying a something is too terrible to joke about is like saying a disease is too terrible to try to cure it. I mean that’s what you do with awful things. You joke about them. That’s how you get through it. It’s how you survive life. So to say – that’s so terrible, I can’t joke about it – That is totally counterintuitive to me. It’s like if it’s that awful, you better start joking about it because that’s how human beings get through it.

Interview – Charlie Rose – Louis CK 04/25/2016