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Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.

Seth Godin

As long as you want to please everyone, you won’t please anyone.
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Long Please Want
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
Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
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Asking Change Forgiveness Permission
The big win is when you refuse to settle for average or mediocre.
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Average Settling Winning
Getting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it’s not a plan. It’s a version of waiting and hoping.
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Fine Plans 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
Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has.
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Jobs Learning Light
There’s nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.
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Failing Missions Plans
You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.
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Innovation Trying Winning
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
Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
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Better Doing Worth
Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
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Elements Successful Two
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
Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn’t work.
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Clever Marketing People
Art isn’t only a painting. Art is anything that’s creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.
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Art Creative Passionate
Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.
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Gratitude Opportunity

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