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You don’t make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.

Seth Godin

Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn’t be done.
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Decided Done World
As you’ve probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.
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Great Work Uncomfortable
The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.
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Becoming Firsts Ordinary
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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Anyway Persons Yourself
Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
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Art Change Courage
Facts are irrelevant. What matters is what the consumer believes.
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Believe Facts Matters What
The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it’s allowed is silos of interest.
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Connecting Interest Internet
The essence of marketing today is to tell a story to people who want to hear it, in a way that resonates with them so they are likely to either respond or connect to you, or tell their friends.
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Essence Marketing People
Your generosity is more important than your perfection.
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Generosity Humor Perfection
Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.
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Future Invent Status Quo
Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
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Simple Successful Thinking
The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact – sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.
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Ability Art Book Dot Teacher
Make more decisions. That’s the only way to get better at it.
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Better Decision Get Way
Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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Art Maps Navigating
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
Do your art. But don’t wreck your art if it doesn’t lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.
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Art Tragedy Wrecks

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