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Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.

Seth Godin

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

Art Tragedy Wrecks
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
Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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Employee Followers Leader
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
The tiny cost of failure…is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
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Cost Leadership Trying
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
Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy.
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Belief Believe Brilliant Happen
Don’t waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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Time Waste Writing
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
Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand.
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Marketing Promise Way
Art isn’t only a painting. Art is anything that is creative, passionate and personal. Art is the unique work of a human being created to touch another. Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else.
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Art Being Huaman Impact Unique
Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn’t be done.
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Decided Done World
The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.
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Favors Paid
You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it’s getting raised regardless.
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Bars Mediocrity Waiting
Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.
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Gratitude Opportunity
Human nature is to need a map. If you’re brave enough to draw one, people will follow.
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Brave Needs People

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