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You can be right or you can have empathy. You can’t do both.

Seth Godin

Who you hang out with determines what you dream about and what you collide with. And the collisions and the dreams lead to your changes. And the changes are what you become. Change the outcome by changing your circle.
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Circles Dream Outcomes
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
Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don’t lead to happiness.
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Health Inspire Stress
A brand that stands for what all brands stand for stands for nothing much.
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Brands Nothing Stand
You don’t make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.
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Art Life Motivational
Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it’s not just a record, it’s a movement.
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Music Powerful Record
Your generosity is more important than your perfection.
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Generosity Humor Perfection
Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.
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Jobs Passion Peace
If you’re not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better.
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Better Get World
As you’ve probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.
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Great Work Uncomfortable
You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.
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Art Pieces Wonder
Believe in what you do, because you may have to do it for a long time before it catches on.
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Believe Long May
Before you tell yourself you have no right to invent this or improve that, remind yourself that the person before you had no right either, but did it anyway.
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Anyway Persons Yourself
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
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
The only way to get what you’re worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.
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Emotional Organization People

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