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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.

Seth Godin

An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.
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Art Business Creativity
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
People who make a difference never wait for just the right time. They know that it will never arrive.
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Differences People Waiting
If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
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Eight Position States
Soon is not as good as now.
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Good Management Now Soon Time
Why waste a sentence saying nothing?
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Inspire Marketing Successful
Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you male, but about the stories you tell.
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Males Marketing Stuff
As long as you want to please everyone, you won’t please anyone.
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Long Please Want
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
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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Competition Requirements Way
Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.
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Jobs Passion Peace
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
Anticipated, personal, and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk.
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Junk Marketing Unsolicited
How was your day?’ is a question that matters a lot more than it seems.
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Day Matter More Seems
Don’t create for the masses. Create for the people who are your kind of weird.
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Kind Mass People
At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you’ll never begin.
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Alternatives Needs Old Things

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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