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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.

Seth Godin

Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it’s not just a record, it’s a movement.
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Music Powerful Record
There’s a big difference between not settling and not starting.
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Differences Settling Starting
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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Art People Responsibility
An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.
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Art Business Creativity
If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
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Eight Position States
Rehearsing failure is simply a bad habit, not a productive use of your time. When you choose to visualize the path that works, you’re more likely to shore it up and create an environment where it can take place.
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Environment Path Use
Facts are irrelevant. What matters is what the consumer believes.
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Believe Facts Matters What
Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
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Defending Exhausting Mediocrity
Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
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Fear Inspirational Smart Successful
Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.
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Leadership Motivational Running
Getting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it’s not a plan. It’s a version of waiting and hoping.
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Fine Plans Waiting
Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
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Asking Change Forgiveness Permission
Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.
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Helping Opposites Overcoming
A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate.
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Ideas Tribute Two Years
Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.
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Different Nine Years
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

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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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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