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There’s no shortage of great ideas. There’s a shortage of execution.

Seth Godin

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
How was your day?’ is a question that matters a lot more than it seems.
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Day Matter More Seems
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Anxiety Challenges Experience
The best creative solutions don’t come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented… They come from inventing new questions!
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Answers Creative Findings
The best way to be missed when you’re gone is to stand for something when you’re here.
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Gone Something Stand Way
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
Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.
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Better Different People
The key to success is to find a way to stand out–to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.
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Cows Keys Purple
The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.
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Jobs Life Motivational
Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.
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Business Inspirational Opportunity
Being an artist isn’t a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It’s an attitude we can all adopt. It’s a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you’re an artist.
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Artist Attitude Inspirational Life
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
If you can raise money, you’re never going to have trouble getting a job.
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Jobs Raises Trouble
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
Anyone who says failure is not an option has also ruled out innovation.
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Failure Innovation Option Provoking Thought
Make a decision. It doesn’t have to be a wise decision or a perfect one. Just make one.
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Business One Perfect Wise
Not adding value is the same as taking it away.
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Adding Value Values
The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they’ve got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.
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Believe Risk Want
As soon as we associate reading with a test, we’ve missed the point.
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Associates Reading Tests
Good enough’ stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?
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Enough Long Mediocrity Time
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
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
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
Who you hang out with determines what you dream about and what you collide with. And the collisions and the dreams lead to your changes. And the changes are what you become. Change the outcome by changing your circle.
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Circles Dream Outcomes
Before you tell yourself you have no right to invent this or improve that, remind yourself that the person before you had no right either, but did it anyway.
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Anyway Persons Yourself
You don’t launch a popular blog, you build one.
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Blogs Laugh Popular
Go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work. No sweat, no need to hyperventilate.
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Decision Mistakes Sweat

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