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If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.

Seth Godin

Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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Art People Responsibility
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
The problem with taking offense is that it’s really hard to figure out what to do with it after you’re done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears.
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Better Done Offense Problem Tables
The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.
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Favors Paid
The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.
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Average Settling Winning
Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it’s not just a record, it’s a movement.
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Music Powerful Record
Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
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Action Happens Video
If you want to be a leader, go lead
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Lead Leader Supporter Want
Don’t waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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Time Waste Writing
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
Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.
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Leadership Motivational Running
Set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
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Inspirational Needs Work
Set a goal, and in small, consistent steps, work to reach it. Get support from your peers when you start flagging. Repeat. You will change.
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Goal Inspirational Support
Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.
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Focused Generous Relentlessly
An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.
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Art Business Creativity
Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
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Fear Inspirational Smart Successful

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