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.
SETH GODINLoving what you do is almost as important as doing what you love, especially if you need to make a living at it.
More Seth Godin Quotes
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How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?
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Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
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If I fail more than you do, I win.
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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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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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Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand.
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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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Perfect can’t possibly be the goal, we’re left with generous, important and human instead.
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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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Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.
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Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person’s shoes. There’s no rational, universal course because individuals have different goals, different worldviews and different experiences.
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Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don’t.
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Set up a life you don’t need to escape from.
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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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Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.
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