Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy.
SETH GODINYou 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.
More Seth Godin Quotes
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Art isn’t only a painting. Art is anything that is creative, passionate and personal. Art is the unique work of a human being created to touch another. Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else.
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The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.
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The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.
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Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.
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At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you’ll never begin.
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Go ahead and make something for the elites. Not the elites of class or wealth, but the elites of curiosity, passion and taste. Every great thing ever created was created by and for this group.
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Denigrating art you don’t understand doesn’t hurt the art – it reveals something about your willingness to learn.
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When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?
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Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand.
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The best creative solutions don’t come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented… They come from inventing new questions!
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The person who fails the most wins.
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Just as we don’t spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their poetry, the same is true for most bloggers.
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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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Rehearsing failure is simply a bad habit, not a productive use of your time. When you choose to visualize the path that works, you’re more likely to shore it up and create an environment where it can take place.
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I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.
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The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.
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People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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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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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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Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
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Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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As soon as we associate reading with a test, we’ve missed the point.
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So much easier to aim for the smallest possible audience, not the largest, to build long-term value among a trusted, delighted tribe, to create work that matters and stands the test of time.
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When you put your ideas in the world, then, and only then, do you know if they’re real.
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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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