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There’s nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.

Seth Godin

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
Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work.
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Lesson Making Mistakes
A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.
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Attention Bigs Defend Time
Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
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Defending Exhausting Mediocrity
Your generosity is more important than your perfection.
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Generosity Humor Perfection
More than anything else, I think prospects, customers and citizens watch what you do more than they listen to what you say.
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Citizens Thinking Watches
Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.
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Future Invent Status Quo
If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we’re going to do important work
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Creating Value Falling Love People
Go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work. No sweat, no need to hyperventilate.
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Decision Mistakes Sweat
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
Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn’t work.
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Clever Marketing People
If failure is not an option, then neither is success.
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Failure Option Success
If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.
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Artist Creativity might
Believe in what you do, because you may have to do it for a long time before it catches on.
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Believe Long May
In a race, sooner or later there’s a moment that separates the winner from those who don’t win. That instant is your chance, the moment you’ve been waiting for.
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Motivational Sports Winning
If I fail more than you do, I win.
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Failing More Winning

There’s nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.

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There’s nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.

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