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Just saying yes because you can’t bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.

Seth Godin

No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it’s true. On the other hand, it’s only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by.
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Bird Hands People
Set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
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Inspirational Needs Work
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
Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
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Better Doing Worth
The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified… and pick yourself.
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Giving Opportunity Permission Someone Waiting
Your generosity is more important than your perfection.
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Generosity Humor Perfection
Just because the tide is out, doesn’t mean there is less water in the ocean.
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Clever Wisdom Wise
Positive thinking doesn’t guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.
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Guarantees Negative Positive Thinking
If you hear my idea and dont believe it , thats not your fault its mine.
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Believe Faults Ideas
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
As long as you want to please everyone, you won’t please anyone.
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Long Please Want
Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.
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Genuine Resistance Vision
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
I don’t think we have any choice. I think we have an obligation to change the rules, to raise the bar, to play a different game, and to play it better than anyone has any right to believe is possible.
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Believe Games Rules Thinking
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
Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
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Customer Differences Making Marketing

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