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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

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
Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.
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Long Positivity Strategy
Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work.
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Lesson Making Mistakes
The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.
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Average Settling Winning
Why waste a sentence saying nothing?
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Inspire Marketing Successful
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
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
There’s no shortage of great ideas. There’s a shortage of execution.
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Execution Great Idea Ideas
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
Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.
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Focused Generous Relentlessly
Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.
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Helping Opposites Overcoming
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
Own your dreams. There is no better way to make them happen.
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Dream Happens Way
Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.
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Failure Innovation Option Provoking Thought
Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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Art Maps Navigating

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