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

Seth Godin

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
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
Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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Art Maps Navigating
The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.
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Competition Requirements Way
Art isn’t only a painting. Art is anything that’s creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.
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Art Creative Passionate
The tiny cost of failure…is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
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Cost Leadership Trying
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
Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.
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Leadership Motivational Running
Many people believe that great designers get great clients. It’s the other way around.
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Believe People Way
At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you’ll never begin.
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Alternatives Needs Old Things
If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
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Eight Position States
The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.
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Bases Firsts Matter
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
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
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
Go ahead, do something impossible.
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Ahead Greatness Impossible Something

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