"If you're not upsetting anyone, you're not changing the status quo."
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"All good ideas are terrible... Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part."
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"Everyone has a comfort zone. Worth considering: How hard (and how often) are you willing to work to get out of it? You can turn that into a habit if you choose."
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"Your history of work is as important as the work you'll do tomorrow."
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"Taking delight in the journey takes confidence. It pushes the envelope of design."
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"The value we create is directly related to how much valuable information we can produce, how much trust we can earn, and how often we innovate."
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"When you set down the path to create art, whatever sort of art it is, understand that the path is neither short not easy. That means you must determine if the route is worth the effort. If it's not, dream bigger."
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"Art is frightening. Art isn't pretty. Art isn't painting. Art isn't something you hang on the wall. Art is what we do when we're truly alive. An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it (all of it, the work, the process, the feedback from those we seek to connect with) personally."
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"I don't think there's a shortage of remarkable ideas. I think your business has plenty of great opportunities to do great things. Nope, what's missing isn't the ideas. It's the will to execute them."
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"You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses."
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"It's almost impossible to have fun playing ping pong with someone who doesn't care, won't try or isn't any good."
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"The goal in blogging/ business/ inspiring non-fiction is to share a truth, or at least a truth as the writer sees it. To not just share it, but to spread it and to cause change to happen. You can do that in at least three ways: with research (your own or reporting on others), by building and describing conceptual structures, or with stories that resonate."
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"One reason people who spend a lot of time thinking about and working on a problem or a craft seem to find breakthroughs more often than everyone else is that they've failed more often than everyone else."
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"Art is the work of a human, an individual seeking to make a statement, to cause a reaction, to connect. Art is something new, every time, and art might not work, precisely because it's new, because it's human and because it seeks to connect."
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"Competence is no longer a scarce commodity."
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"Play a new game, not the older game but faster."
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"In fact, most of the time, people with similar information, similar beliefs and similar apparent choices will choose similar actions. So if you want to know why someone does what they do, start with what they know, what they believe and where they came from. Dismissing actions we don't admire merely because we don't care enough to have empathy is rarely going to help us make the change we seek. It doesn't help us understand, and it creates a gulf that drives us apart."
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"Surprise and delight and connection are remarkable."
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"Data is not useful until it becomes information."
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"The goal is to be on the hook, not to let someone else do the scary parts."
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