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Richard Bach Author
Needs

"Money is a great isolator. In fact, we don't even need to have money or make money, we only need to be perceived as having money to be isolated in the strangest ways from most of the community around us. It reaches the point where a person with money spends a great deal of time reacting to people who are reacting to the money."

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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
Needs

"At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin."

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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
Needs

"No more than six words on a slide. Ever. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken."

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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
Needs

"If you demand that everything that happens be something you are adequately prepared for, I wonder if you’ve chosen never to leap in ways that we need you to leap. Once we embrace this chasm, then for the things for which we can never be prepared, we are of course, always prepared."

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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
Needs

"Care. Care more than you need to, more often than expected, more completely than the other guy."

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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
Needs

"Yes, I think it's okay to abandon the big, established, stuck tribe. It's okay to say to them, "You're not going where I need to go, and there's no way I'm going to persuade all of you to follow me. So rather than standing here watching the opportunities fade away, I'm heading off. I'm betting some of you, the best of you, will follow me."

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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
Needs

"The time to look for a new job is when you don't need one. The time to switch jobs is before it feels comfortable."

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Shania Twain Singer-songwriter
Needs

"My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming."

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Sheena Iyengar Psychologist
Needs

"The phantasmagoria, the actual experience that we try to understand and organize through narrative, varies from place to place. No single narrative serves the needs of everyone everywhere."

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Sheena Iyengar Psychologist
Needs

"So for decisions about happiness you essentially need at least both and probably even more than that, you probably also need to do analysis that doesn't involve yourself to get at the answer of what will make you happy in 10 years."

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