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We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.

Seth Godin

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’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.
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Born Creative Littles
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
Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
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Action Happens Video
Keep starting until you finish.
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Finish Keep Starting
The person who fails the most wins.
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Failing Persons Winning
The best creative solutions don’t come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented… They come from inventing new questions!
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Answers Creative Findings
So much easier to aim for the smallest possible audience, not the largest, to build long-term value among a trusted, delighted tribe, to create work that matters and stands the test of time.
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Long Matter Tests
Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
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Defending Exhausting Mediocrity
The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.
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Life Lunch Work
Anticipated, personal, and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk.
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Junk Marketing Unsolicited
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
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
Many people believe that great designers get great clients. It’s the other way around.
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Believe People Way
So sure, start with a slogan. But don’t bother wasting any time on it if you’re merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead.
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Aim Bother Catchy
The tiny cost of failure…is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
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Cost Leadership Trying

We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.

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