# Quote — Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!

> Human beings want to know where things come from, how they were made, and who made them. The stories you tell about the work you do have a huge effect on how people feel and what they understand about your work, and how people feel and what they understand about your work effects how they value it.

- Author: [Austin Kleon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/austin-kleon.md)
- Book: [Show Your Work!](https://www.leafyquotes.com/austin-kleon/show-your-work.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Austin_Kleon#Show_Your_Work!_(2014)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/austin-kleon/show-your-work/human-beings-want

## More from this book

> If you're only pointing to your own stuff online, you're doing it wrong. [...] If you want to get, you have to give. If you want to be noticed, you have to notice. Shut up and listen once in a while.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/austin-kleon/show-your-work/if-youre-only.md)

> When you feel like you've learned whatever there is to learn from what you're doing, it's time to change course and find something new to learn so that you can move forward. You can't be content with mastery; you have to push yourself to become a student again.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/austin-kleon/show-your-work/when-you-feel.md)

> It is actually true that life is all about "who you know". But who you know is largely dependent on who you are and what you do, and the people you know can't do anything for you if you're not doing good work.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/austin-kleon/show-your-work/it-is-actually.md)