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I don’t think we have any choice. I think we have an obligation to change the rules, to raise the bar, to play a different game, and to play it better than anyone has any right to believe is possible.

Seth Godin

The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.
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Becoming Firsts Ordinary
Go ahead, do something impossible.
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Ahead Greatness Impossible Something
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
Rehearsing failure is simply a bad habit, not a productive use of your time. When you choose to visualize the path that works, you’re more likely to shore it up and create an environment where it can take place.
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Environment Path Use
Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.
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Differentiation Impact Noise
Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work.
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Lesson Making Mistakes
The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission
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Organization People Smart
Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.
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Focused Generous Relentlessly
Many people believe that great designers get great clients. It’s the other way around.
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Believe People Way
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
Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you male, but about the stories you tell.
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Males Marketing Stuff
The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they’ve got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.
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Believe Risk Want
There’s a big difference between not settling and not starting.
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Differences Settling Starting
The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.
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Jobs Life Motivational
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
Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
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Defending Exhausting Mediocrity
Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
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Art Ideas Leadership
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
Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.
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Figures People Technology
Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.
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Future Invent Status Quo
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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Art People Responsibility
An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.
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Art Business Creativity
We know what you want to accomplish… The real question is, ‘what are you willing to push through the dip for?’ What are you willing to stand up for, bleed for, commit to and generally be unreasonable about? Because that’s what’s going to actually get done.
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Accomplish Done Question Real Stand Want
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
Just because something is easy to measure doesn’t mean it’s important.
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Christian Mean Motivational
Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
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Change Inspirational Inspiring
Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.
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Genuine Resistance Vision

I don’t think we have any choice. I think we have an obligation to change the rules, to raise the bar, to play a different game, and to play it better than anyone has any right to believe is possible.

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I don’t think we have any choice. I think we have an obligation to change the rules, to raise the bar, to play a different game, and to play it better than anyone has any right to believe is possible.

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