# Quote — Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!

> 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.

- 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/if-youre-only

## More from this book

> 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)

> Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine. Online, you can become the person you really want to be. Fill your website with your work and your ideas and the stuff you care about. [...] Stick with it, maintain it, and let it change with you over time.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/austin-kleon/show-your-work/dont-think-of-your.md)