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No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it’s true. On the other hand, it’s only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by.

Seth Godin

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
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
A book is a souvenir of an idea.
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Book Ideas
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
When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?
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Believe Entrepreneur Jobs
The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.
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Life Lunch Work
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
If I fail more than you do, I win.
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Failing More Winning
Just because something is easy to measure doesn’t mean it’s important.
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Christian Mean Motivational
Build it, and they will come” only works in the movies. Social Media is a “build it, nurture it, engage them, and they may come and stay.
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Marketing May Media
The best creative solutions don’t come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented… They come from inventing new questions!
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Answers Creative Findings
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Anxiety Challenges Experience
Playing safe is very risky.
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Business Playing Risky Safe
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
No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it’s true. On the other hand, it’s only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by.
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Bird Hands People
Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.
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Different Nine Years

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