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As you’ve probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.

Seth Godin

People who make a difference never wait for just the right time. They know that it will never arrive.
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Differences People Waiting
In a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to store it away until after the race is over. Sure, he’s tired. Everyone is. That’s not the point. The point is to run.
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Distance Running Tired
Loving what you do is almost as important as doing what you love, especially if you need to make a living at it.
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Almost Loving Important
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Anxiety Challenges Experience
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
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
Go ahead and make something for the elites. Not the elites of class or wealth, but the elites of curiosity, passion and taste. Every great thing ever created was created by and for this group.
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Class Curiosity Passion
Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.
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Average Loser Quitting
Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.
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Different Nine Years
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
A book is a souvenir of an idea.
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Book Ideas
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
Ideas that spread win.
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Ideas Ironic Winning
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
Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.
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Gratitude Opportunity
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

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