We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.
SETH GODINOnce you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it’s a lot easier to launch work that matters.
More Seth Godin Quotes
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More than anything else, I think prospects, customers and citizens watch what you do more than they listen to what you say.
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Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
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Go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work. No sweat, no need to hyperventilate.
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Before you tell yourself you have no right to invent this or improve that, remind yourself that the person before you had no right either, but did it anyway.
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Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.
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As long as you want to please everyone, you won’t please anyone.
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Just because the tide is out, doesn’t mean there is less water in the ocean.
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We know what you want to accomplish… The real question is, ‘what are you willing to push through the dip for?’ What are you willing to stand up for, bleed for, commit to and generally be unreasonable about? Because that’s what’s going to actually get done.
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Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.
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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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Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
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Set a goal, and in small, consistent steps, work to reach it. Get support from your peers when you start flagging. Repeat. You will change.
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The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.
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Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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Ideas that spread win.
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Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.
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When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?
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Who you hang out with determines what you dream about and what you collide with. And the collisions and the dreams lead to your changes. And the changes are what you become. Change the outcome by changing your circle.
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Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.
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Your generosity is more important than your perfection.
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Just saying yes because you can’t bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.
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Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.
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The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.
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The Cul-de-Sac ( French for “dead end” ) … is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes
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Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work.
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When you put your ideas in the world, then, and only then, do you know if they’re real.
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