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Your generosity is more important than your perfection.

Seth Godin

Go ahead and make something for the elites. Not the elites of class or wealth, but the elites of curiosity, passion and taste. Every great thing ever created was created by and for this group.
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Class Curiosity Passion
There’s a big difference between not settling and not starting.
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Differences Settling Starting
As long as you want to please everyone, you won’t please anyone.
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Long Please Want
Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it’s a lot easier to launch work that matters.
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Acceptance Business Perfect
The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.
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Jobs Life Motivational
Denigrating art you don’t understand doesn’t hurt the art – it reveals something about your willingness to learn.
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Art Hurt Learn Willingness
If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
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Eight Position States
Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable.
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Boss People Safe
Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
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Simple Successful Thinking
Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
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Better Doing Worth
The problem with taking offense is that it’s really hard to figure out what to do with it after you’re done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears.
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Better Done Offense Problem Tables
Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.
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Future Invent Status Quo
Positive thinking doesn’t guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.
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Guarantees Negative Positive Thinking
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
You don’t make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.
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Art Life Motivational
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

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