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.
SETH GODINDon’t create for the masses. Create for the people who are your kind of weird.
More Seth Godin Quotes
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Set a goal, and in small, consistent steps, work to reach it. Get support from your peers when you start flagging. Repeat. You will change.
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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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When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?
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Loving what you do is almost as important as doing what you love, especially if you need to make a living at it.
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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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Denigrating art you don’t understand doesn’t hurt the art – it reveals something about your willingness to learn.
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Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.
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People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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The less people know, the more they yell.
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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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Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
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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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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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Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.
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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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