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Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.

Seth Godin

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
Many people believe that great designers get great clients. It’s the other way around.
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Believe People Way
You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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Gold Training Winning
You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.
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Innovation Trying Winning
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
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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Art People Responsibility
There’s a big difference between not settling and not starting.
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Differences Settling Starting
If you want to be a leader, go lead
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Lead Leader Supporter Want
Do your art. But don’t wreck your art if it doesn’t lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.
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Art Tragedy Wrecks
If you can’t state your position in eight words, you don’t have a position.
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Eight Position States
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
Art is the act of navigating without a map.
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Art Maps Navigating
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
Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.
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Helping Opposites Overcoming
Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
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Customer Differences Making Marketing
The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.
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Character Mind Squares

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