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

Seth Godin

People get good gigs because they stand up….You don’t get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.
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Business Gigs Mind Own People
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
You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
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Effectiveness People Success
There’s a big difference between not settling and not starting.
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Differences Settling Starting
Art is a personal act of courage.
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Acts Art Courage
Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
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Art Change Courage
The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.
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Insightful Inspiring Marketing
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
At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you’ll never begin.
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Alternatives Needs Old Things
The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.
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Becoming Firsts Ordinary
A brand that stands for what all brands stand for stands for nothing much.
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Brands Nothing Stand
The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.
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Favors Paid
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
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
Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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Employee Followers Leader
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

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