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If I fail more than you do, I win.

Seth Godin

The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified… and pick yourself.
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Giving Opportunity Permission Someone Waiting
The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.
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Bases Firsts Matter
The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.
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Average Settling Winning
Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.
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Better Different People
Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
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Action Happens Video
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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Art People Responsibility
Anticipated, personal, and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk.
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Junk Marketing Unsolicited
Set a goal, and in small, consistent steps, work to reach it. Get support from your peers when you start flagging. Repeat. You will change.
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Goal Inspirational Support
The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.
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Becoming Firsts Ordinary
If failure is not an option, then neither is success.
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Failure Option Success
There’s a big difference between not settling and not starting.
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Differences Settling Starting
Being an artist isn’t a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It’s an attitude we can all adopt. It’s a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you’re an artist.
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Artist Attitude Inspirational Life
Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
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Better Doing Worth
Just saying yes because you can’t bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.
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Choices Pain Saying Yes
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
Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.
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Long Positivity Strategy

If I fail more than you do, I win.

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