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The key to success is to find a way to stand out–to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.

Seth Godin

An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.
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Art Business Creativity
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
Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it’s not just a record, it’s a movement.
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Music Powerful Record
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
Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.
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Leadership Motivational Running
The less people know, the more they yell.
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Communication Knows People
The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.
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Jobs Life Motivational
Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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Art Maps Navigating
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
Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.
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Focused Generous Relentlessly
Change isn’t made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
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Asking Change Forgiveness Permission
A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.
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Attention Bigs Defend Time
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
You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.
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Art Pieces Wonder
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
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

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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