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Denigrating art you don’t understand doesn’t hurt the art – it reveals something about your willingness to learn.

Seth Godin

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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Dead Ends Ends Situation
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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Cows Keys Purple
The purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you’re with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is over.
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Elevator Purpose Solution Want
Art is a personal act of courage.
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Acts Art Courage
You don’t launch a popular blog, you build one.
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Blogs Laugh Popular
You can be right or you can have empathy. You can’t do both.
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Empathy Inspiring Relationship
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
People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.
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About People Talking Yourself
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
Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.
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Hills Moles Mountain
One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you’re in the room… Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you’re not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.
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Differences Making Miss Room Struggle
You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
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Effectiveness People Success
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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Art Creative Passionate
Human nature is to need a map. If you’re brave enough to draw one, people will follow.
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Brave Needs People
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
If I fail more than you do, I win.
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Failing More Winning

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