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Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.

Seth Godin

The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.
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Competition Requirements Way
Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.
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Focused Generous Relentlessly
Soon is not as good as now.
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Good Management Now Soon Time
Don’t waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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Time Waste Writing
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
Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.
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Figures People Technology
You can be right or you can have empathy. You can’t do both.
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Empathy Inspiring Relationship
Set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
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Inspirational Needs Work
As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.
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Matter might Misguide Perfection
Make more decisions. That’s the only way to get better at it.
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Better Decision Get Way
Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.
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Gratitude Opportunity
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
Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.
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Better Different People
Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
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Asking Change Forgiveness Permission
Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
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Simple Successful Thinking
You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.
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Art Pieces Wonder

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