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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.

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
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
Facts are irrelevant. What matters is what the consumer believes.
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Believe Facts Matters What
Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
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Action Happens Video
The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.
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Life Lunch Work
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
Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable.
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Boss People Safe
How was your day?’ is a question that matters a lot more than it seems.
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Day Matter More Seems
If you want to be a leader, go lead
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Lead Leader Supporter Want
The tiny cost of failure…is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.
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Cost Leadership Trying
We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.
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Born Creative Littles
Keep starting until you finish.
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Finish Keep Starting
As soon as we associate reading with a test, we’ve missed the point.
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Associates Reading Tests
The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.
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Jobs Life Motivational
Not adding value is the same as taking it away.
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Adding Value Values
As you’ve probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.
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Great Work Uncomfortable

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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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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