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The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.

Seth Godin

Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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Art People Responsibility
The best way to be missed when you’re gone is to stand for something when you’re here.
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Gone Something Stand Way
Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.
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Funny Map Waiting
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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Choices Pain Saying Yes
Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
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Elements Successful Two
In a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to store it away until after the race is over. Sure, he’s tired. Everyone is. That’s not the point. The point is to run.
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Distance Running Tired
Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.
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Failure Innovation Option Provoking Thought
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Anxiety Challenges Experience
The only way to get what you’re worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.
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Emotional Organization People
The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission
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Organization People Smart
We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.
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Born Creative Littles
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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Decision Mistakes Sweat
Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
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Art Change Courage
Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
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Customer Differences Making Marketing
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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Aim Bother Catchy
Your drudgery is another person’s delight. It’s only a job if you treat it that way. The privilege to do our work, to be in control of the promises we make and the things we build, is something worth cherishing.
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Delight Jobs Promise

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