Do your art. But don’t wreck your art if it doesn’t lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.
SETH GODINA book is a souvenir of an idea.
More Seth Godin Quotes
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There’s no shortage of great ideas. There’s a shortage of execution.
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Go ahead, do something impossible.
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Positive thinking doesn’t guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.
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A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.
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So sure, start with a slogan. But don’t bother wasting any time on it if you’re merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead.
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Art isn’t only a painting. Art is anything that’s creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.
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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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The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.
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The key to success is to find a way to stand out–to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.
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You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.
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Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
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Denigrating art you don’t understand doesn’t hurt the art – it reveals something about your willingness to learn.
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Just as we don’t spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their poetry, the same is true for most bloggers.
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As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.
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Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
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