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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.

Seth Godin

Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.
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Future Invent Status Quo
We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.
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Born Creative Littles
The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission
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Organization People Smart
Don’t create for the masses. Create for the people who are your kind of weird.
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Kind Mass People
People who make a difference never wait for just the right time. They know that it will never arrive.
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Differences People Waiting
You don’t make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.
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Art Life Motivational
The purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you’re with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is over.
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Elevator Purpose Solution Want
Just saying yes because you can’t bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.
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Choices Pain Saying Yes
Own your dreams. There is no better way to make them happen.
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Dream Happens Way
If failure is not an option, then neither is success.
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Failure Option Success
Not adding value is the same as taking it away.
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Adding Value Values
We fail when we give up too soon.
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Failing Giving Giving Up
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
One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you’re in the room… Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you’re not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.
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Differences Making Miss Room Struggle
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
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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Art People Responsibility

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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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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