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Just as we don’t spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their poetry, the same is true for most bloggers.

Seth Godin

Set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
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Inspirational Needs Work
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
Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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Art Maps Navigating
Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.
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Archive Goal People
The key to success is to find a way to stand out–to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.
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Cows Keys Purple
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
Do your art. But don’t wreck your art if it doesn’t lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.
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Art Tragedy Wrecks
Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.
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Leadership Motivational Running
At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you’ll never begin.
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Alternatives Needs Old Things
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
Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
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Defending Exhausting Mediocrity
As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.
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Matter might Misguide Perfection
If you hear my idea and dont believe it , thats not your fault its mine.
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Believe Faults Ideas
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
Don’t create for the masses. Create for the people who are your kind of weird.
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Kind Mass People
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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Failing Missions Plans

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