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Do your art. But don’t wreck your art if it doesn’t lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.

Seth Godin

The goal of a marketing interaction isn’t to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.
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Goal Moving Opportunity
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
Art isn’t only a painting. Art is anything that’s creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.
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Art Creative Passionate
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Anxiety Challenges Experience
Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work.
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Lesson Making Mistakes
Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
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Art Change Courage
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
We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.
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Born Creative Littles
The only way to get what you’re worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.
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Emotional Organization People
Playing safe is very risky.
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Business Playing Risky Safe
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
If I fail more than you do, I win.
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Failing More Winning
The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission
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Organization People Smart
In a race, sooner or later there’s a moment that separates the winner from those who don’t win. That instant is your chance, the moment you’ve been waiting for.
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Motivational Sports Winning
Don’t create for the masses. Create for the people who are your kind of weird.
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Kind Mass People
Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.
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Motivational Opportunity Winning

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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