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Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.
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Failure Fear Perseverance
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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Motivational Opportunity Winning
Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it’s not just a record, it’s a movement.
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Music Powerful Record
The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.
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Jobs Life Motivational
If failure is not an option, then neither is success.
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Failure Option Success
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
Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don’t lead to happiness.
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Health Inspire Stress
As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.
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Jester Needs People Roles
Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person’s shoes. There’s no rational, universal course because individuals have different goals, different worldviews and different experiences.
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Different Experiences Goal Shoes
Not changing your strategy merely because you’re used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.
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Starting Strategy Used
Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work.
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Lesson Making Mistakes
Do your art. But don’t wreck your art if it doesn’t lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.
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Art Tragedy Wrecks
Set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
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Inspirational Needs Work
Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn’t work.
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Clever Marketing People
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
As you’ve probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.
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Great Work Uncomfortable
Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
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Simple Successful Thinking
You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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Gold Training Winning
Are you copying others? People won’t pay extra for that. You won’t be followed for that.
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Copying Pay People
A book is a souvenir of an idea.
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Book Ideas
Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.
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Business Inspirational Opportunity
The enemy of creativity… is fear. We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.
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Acting Creative Creativity Enemy Generate
Go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work. No sweat, no need to hyperventilate.
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Decision Mistakes Sweat
Art isn’t only a painting. Art is anything that is creative, passionate and personal. Art is the unique work of a human being created to touch another. Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else.
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Art Being Huaman Impact Unique
If you hear my idea and dont believe it , thats not your fault its mine.
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Believe Faults Ideas
Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand.
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Marketing Promise Way
Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy.
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Belief Believe Brilliant Happen

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