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

Seth Godin

Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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Employee Followers Leader
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
How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?
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Entrepreneur Social Media World
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
How was your day?’ is a question that matters a lot more than it seems.
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Day Matter More Seems
The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified… and pick yourself.
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Giving Opportunity Permission Someone Waiting
Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work.
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Lesson Making Mistakes
The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.
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Becoming Firsts Ordinary
Just because the tide is out, doesn’t mean there is less water in the ocean.
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Clever Wisdom Wise
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
Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
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Action Happens Video
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
A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.
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Attention Bigs Defend Time
The person who fails the most wins.
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Failing Persons Winning
Positive thinking doesn’t guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.
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Guarantees Negative Positive Thinking
If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we’re going to do important work
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Creating Value Falling Love People

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

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