"A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything"
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The subtext is deeply Lucas: iterate, prototype, keep moving. This is the mind behind a filmmaker who changed cinema partly by treating art like engineering - tinkering with tools, processes, and teams until the thing clicks. His career wasn’t a straight line of pure inspiration; it was a series of bets, revisions, and technical leaps, from American Graffiti’s tight human scale to Star Wars’ industrial-scale imagination. So when he says “keep going,” he’s really recommending creative R&D: try, test, discard, repeat.
There’s a hidden sting here, too. “Extremely good” becomes the threshold for permission, which can turn curiosity into constant self-surveillance. But Lucas also widens the door with “It can be anything,” a democratic counterweight to prestige culture. The aim isn’t to anoint one noble talent; it’s to find the intersection where joy survives contact with competence - and where persistence finally has something to compound.
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Lucas, George. (2026, January 18). A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/a-lot-of-people-like-to-do-certain-things-but-11246/
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Lucas, George. "A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything." FixQuotes. January 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/a-lot-of-people-like-to-do-certain-things-but-11246/.
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"A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything." FixQuotes, 18 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/a-lot-of-people-like-to-do-certain-things-but-11246/. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.








