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Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured.

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This idea that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact is being proven over and over again around the world nearly on a daily basis – and for Secretary Clinton to recognize that, I think, is a huge step.
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Ideas Impact Secretary Thinking
I think you have something really great with all those stories waiting to be told, but I just don’t know how it shapes up exactly. I don’t think there are going to be a lot of newspaper reporters sitting around not writing.
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Exactly Newspaper Shapes Stories Think Waiting
I realized ceativity is a renewable resource. You never run out of good ideas
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Ideas Renewable Resources Running
You don’t have to spend the entire day hunched over your computer consuming this information.
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Better Over You Simple
The determination that led me to create a new sports team taught me an important lesson: opportunity is manufactured.
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Determination Sports Team
We can break news really fast. When an earthquake happens, there are people Twittering about it.
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Earthquakes News People
In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
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Failing Order Succeed
We realized we weren’t really using Odeo, we weren’t investing our own time creating podcasts.
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Creating Ideas People
Embrace your constraints.
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Constraints Embrace Life
Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
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Animal Compassion Wife
I was kind of showing the art director a thing or two about how to use a Mac. And one day everyone went out to lunch and I jumped on the computer and designed a book jacket and slipped it in the pile to go to the review board in New York.
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Book Computer Everyone Jacked Jumped Slipped
Inventing your dream is the first and biggest step toward making it come true.
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Dream Firsts Steps
So I taught myself web design, and then in 1999 some friends of mine decided to start a company called Xanga.com, which was a very early kind of social network slash blogging community.
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Blogging Call Community Decide Sort
I knew Mac pretty well. I’d used them when I was younger.
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Macs Pretty Used Wells Younger
Creativity is a renewable resource.
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Creativity Renewable Resources Resources
You have to have an emotional investment in what you’re doing. If you don’t love what you’re doing, failure is pretty much guaranteed.
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Emotional Failure Guaranteed Investment

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