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Positive thinking doesn’t guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.

Seth Godin

If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we’re going to do important work
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Creating Value Falling Love People
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
Art is a personal act of courage.
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Acts Art Courage
Don’t create for the masses. Create for the people who are your kind of weird.
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Kind Mass People
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
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
The goal of a marketing interaction isn’t to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.
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Goal Moving Opportunity
As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more vital than ever before. Please stop sitting around. We need you to make a ruckus.
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Jester Needs People Roles
Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it’s a lot easier to launch work that matters.
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Acceptance Business Perfect
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
Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
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Fear Inspirational Smart Successful
Don’t waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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Time Waste Writing
The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.
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Jobs Life Motivational
If you can raise money, you’re never going to have trouble getting a job.
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Jobs Raises Trouble
If you try to delight the undelightable, you’ve made yourself miserable for no reason.
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Delight Miserable Trying
Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.
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Average Loser Quitting

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