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The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.

Seth Godin

The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact – sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.
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Ability Art Book Dot Teacher
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
How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?
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Entrepreneur Social Media World
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
As you’ve probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.
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Great Work Uncomfortable
Many people believe that great designers get great clients. It’s the other way around.
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Believe People Way
The problem with taking offense is that it’s really hard to figure out what to do with it after you’re done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears.
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Better Done Offense Problem Tables
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
People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.
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About People Talking Yourself
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
Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.
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Different Nine Years
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
The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
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Doing Habit More Practice
Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don’t.
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Marketing Motivation People
Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
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Defending Exhausting Mediocrity
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

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