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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.

Seth Godin

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
Set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
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Inspirational Needs Work
The purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you’re with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is over.
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Elevator Purpose Solution Want
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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Changing Differences Life Matters
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
The goal of a marketing interaction isn’t to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.
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Goal Moving Opportunity
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
If you can raise money, you’re never going to have trouble getting a job.
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Jobs Raises Trouble
Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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Art Maps Navigating
Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.
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Business Customer Loyal Motivational
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
Just as we don’t spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their poetry, the same is true for most bloggers.
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Blogger Funny Thoughtful Worry
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.
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Accomplish Done Question Real Stand Want
Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.
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Differentiation Impact Noise
A brand that stands for what all brands stand for stands for nothing much.
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Brands Nothing Stand
Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn’t be done.
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Decided Done World

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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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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