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When you put your ideas in the world, then, and only then, do you know if they’re real.

Seth Godin

Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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Art People Responsibility
Don’t waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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Time Waste Writing
Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.
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Business Fire People
Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn’t work.
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Clever Marketing People
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.
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Blogger Funny Thoughtful Worry
You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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Gold Training Winning
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
Your drudgery is another person’s delight. It’s only a job if you treat it that way. The privilege to do our work, to be in control of the promises we make and the things we build, is something worth cherishing.
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Delight Jobs Promise
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
Your best customers are worth far more than your average customers.
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Average Business Customers
Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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Art Maps Navigating
Own your dreams. There is no better way to make them happen.
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Dream Happens Way
Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.
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Leadership Motivational Running
Playing safe is very risky.
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Business Playing Risky Safe
Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.
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Gratitude Opportunity
Getting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it’s not a plan. It’s a version of waiting and hoping.
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Fine Plans Waiting

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