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There’s nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.

Seth Godin

Positive thinking doesn’t guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.
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Guarantees Negative Positive Thinking
You don’t make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.
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Art Life Motivational
Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has.
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Jobs Learning Light
Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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Art Maps Navigating
Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it’s not just a record, it’s a movement.
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Music Powerful Record
Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
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Fear Inspirational Smart Successful
Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.
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Funny Map Waiting
If you can raise money, you’re never going to have trouble getting a job.
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Jobs Raises Trouble
One bad review doesn’t ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.
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Criticism Honor Ruins
People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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Business Entrepreneur People
No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it’s true. On the other hand, it’s only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by.
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Bird Hands People
Make a decision. It doesn’t have to be a wise decision or a perfect one. Just make one.
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Business One Perfect Wise
As you’ve probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.
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Great Work Uncomfortable
The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they’ve got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.
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Believe Risk Want
Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.
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Out Persons Work Wrecks
Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.
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Helping Opposites Overcoming

There’s nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.

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There’s nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.

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