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The Cul-de-Sac ( French for “dead end” ) … is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes

Seth Godin

Being an artist isn’t a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It’s an attitude we can all adopt. It’s a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you’re an artist.
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Artist Attitude Inspirational Life
Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it’s a lot easier to launch work that matters.
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Acceptance Business Perfect
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
Denigrating art you don’t understand doesn’t hurt the art – it reveals something about your willingness to learn.
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Art Hurt Learn Willingness
If failure is not an option, then neither is success.
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Failure Option Success
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
There’s nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.
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Failing Missions Plans
Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
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Defending Exhausting Mediocrity
For most modern marketers, quantity isn’t the point. What matters is to matter. Lives changed. Work that made an actual difference. Connection.
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Changing Differences Life Matters
Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.
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Figures People Technology
We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.
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Born Creative Littles
There’s a big difference between not settling and not starting.
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Differences Settling Starting
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
If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
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Eight Position States
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
A brand that stands for what all brands stand for stands for nothing much.
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Brands Nothing Stand

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