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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.

Seth Godin

Perfect can’t possibly be the goal, we’re left with generous, important and human instead.
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Goal Important Perfect
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
Being an artist isn’t a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It’s an attitude we can all adopt. It’s a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you’re an artist.
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Artist Attitude Inspirational Life
You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it’s getting raised regardless.
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Bars Mediocrity Waiting
Go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work. No sweat, no need to hyperventilate.
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Decision Mistakes Sweat
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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Answers Creative Findings
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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Long Positivity Strategy
People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.
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Business Entrepreneur People
Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
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Change Inspirational Inspiring
You can be right or you can have empathy. You can’t do both.
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Empathy Inspiring Relationship
The essence of marketing today is to tell a story to people who want to hear it, in a way that resonates with them so they are likely to either respond or connect to you, or tell their friends.
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Essence Marketing People
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
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
Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn’t work.
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Lesson Making Mistakes
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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Acting Creative Creativity Enemy Generate
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 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
Positive thinking doesn’t guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.
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Guarantees Negative Positive Thinking
Set a goal, and in small, consistent steps, work to reach it. Get support from your peers when you start flagging. Repeat. You will change.
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Goal Inspirational Support
The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.
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Insightful Inspiring Marketing
The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it’s allowed is silos of interest.
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Connecting Interest Internet
You don’t need more time in your day. You need to decide.
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More Time Needs
The problem with taking offense is that it’s really hard to figure out what to do with it after you’re done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears.
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Better Done Offense Problem Tables
You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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Gold Training Winning
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 person who fails the most wins.
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Failing Persons Winning
Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.
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Business Inspirational Opportunity

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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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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