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

Seth Godin

The tiny cost of failure…is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
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Cost Leadership Trying
Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has.
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Jobs Learning Light
If you try to delight the undelightable, you’ve made yourself miserable for no reason.
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Delight Miserable Trying
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
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
Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.
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Jobs Passion Peace
So much easier to aim for the smallest possible audience, not the largest, to build long-term value among a trusted, delighted tribe, to create work that matters and stands the test of time.
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Long Matter Tests
If you hear my idea and dont believe it , thats not your fault its mine.
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Believe Faults Ideas
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
The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact – sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.
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Ability Art Book Dot Teacher
Getting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it’s not a plan. It’s a version of waiting and hoping.
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Fine Plans Waiting
Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.
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Helping Opposites Overcoming
You are not your resume, you are your work.
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Business Inspiring Motivational
Soon is not as good as now.
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Good Management Now Soon Time
Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.
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Figures People Technology
A book is a souvenir of an idea.
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Book Ideas

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