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Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.

Seth Godin

Do your art. But don’t wreck your art if it doesn’t lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.
SETH GODIN

Art Tragedy Wrecks
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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Accomplish Done Question Real Stand Want
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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Blogger Funny Thoughtful Worry
Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
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Fear Inspirational Smart Successful
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 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
Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
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Better Doing Worth
Art isn’t only a painting. Art is anything that’s creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.
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Art Creative Passionate
Own your dreams. There is no better way to make them happen.
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Dream Happens Way
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
If I fail more than you do, I win.
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Failing More Winning
If you’re not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better.
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Better Get World
You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
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Effectiveness People Success
Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.
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Out Persons Work Wrecks
Perfect can’t possibly be the goal, we’re left with generous, important and human instead.
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Goal Important Perfect
Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.
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Business Fire People
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
The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.
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Life Lunch Work
Good enough’ stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?
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Enough Long Mediocrity Time
We fail when we give up too soon.
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Failing Giving Giving Up
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
People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.
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About People Talking Yourself
Make more decisions. That’s the only way to get better at it.
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Better Decision Get Way
One bad review doesn’t ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.
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Criticism Honor Ruins
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
Art is a personal act of courage.
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Acts Art Courage
The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.
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Competition Requirements Way

Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.

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