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An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.

Seth Godin

When you put your ideas in the world, then, and only then, do you know if they’re real.
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Ideas Real World
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
Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
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Simple Successful Thinking
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
The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we’ll ever get paid back appropriately.
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Favors Paid
Anticipated, personal, and relevant advertising always does better than unsolicited junk.
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Junk Marketing Unsolicited
Your drudgery is another person’s delight. It’s only a job if you treat it that way. The privilege to do our work, to be in control of the promises we make and the things we build, is something worth cherishing.
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Delight Jobs Promise
Just because something is easy to measure doesn’t mean it’s important.
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Christian Mean Motivational
Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.
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Leadership Motivational Running
In a race, sooner or later there’s a moment that separates the winner from those who don’t win. That instant is your chance, the moment you’ve been waiting for.
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Motivational Sports Winning
The Cul-de-Sac ( French for “dead end” ) … is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes
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Dead Ends Ends Situation
Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.
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Focused Generous Relentlessly
As you’ve probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.
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Great Work Uncomfortable
Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.
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Different Nine Years
You don’t launch a popular blog, you build one.
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Blogs Laugh Popular
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
The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified… and pick yourself.
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Giving Opportunity Permission Someone 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
If I fail more than you do, I win.
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Failing More Winning
Ideas that spread win.
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Ideas Ironic Winning
The only way to get what you’re worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about.
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Emotional Organization People
Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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Art Maps Navigating
So sure, start with a slogan. But don’t bother wasting any time on it if you’re merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead.
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Aim Bother Catchy
Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.
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Gratitude Opportunity
Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
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Action Happens Video
People get good gigs because they stand up….You don’t get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.
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Business Gigs Mind Own People
There’s a big difference between not settling and not starting.
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Differences Settling Starting

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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