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If failure is not an option, then neither is success.

Seth Godin

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.
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Art Pieces Wonder
For most modern marketers, quantity isn’t the point. What matters is to matter. Lives changed. Work that made an actual difference. Connection.
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Changing Differences Life Matters
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
Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it’s not just a record, it’s a movement.
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Music Powerful Record
Your generosity is more important than your perfection.
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Generosity Humor Perfection
Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has.
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Jobs Learning Light
Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn’t work.
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Clever Marketing People
Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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Employee Followers Leader
When you put your ideas in the world, then, and only then, do you know if they’re real.
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Ideas Real World
The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they’ve got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.
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Believe Risk Want
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Anxiety Challenges Experience
You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it’s getting raised regardless.
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Bars Mediocrity Waiting
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
If you want to be a leader, go lead
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Lead Leader Supporter Want
Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
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Art Ideas Leadership
People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.
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About People Talking Yourself

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