"Listen to your fear but don't obey it."
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"This might end up in crying. If you're not prepared to cry about it, I'm not sure you're making art. And if you're not prepared to dance in anticipation, you're definitely not making art."
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"The future isn't so much about absorbing or tolerating change, it's about making change."
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"Marketers have to move upstream now. We have to stop being the last step in the process and start being the first step."
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"If you're in the idea business, it doesn't matter where you're from. It matters if we care about the change you're making."
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"Sharing an idea you care about is a generous way to change your world for the better."
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"We live in a vague world. And it gets vaguer all the time. In this environment, the power of the specific, measurable and useful promise made and kept is difficult to overstate."
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"Way more productive, I think, to push yourself to be more in the world, not to encourage yourself to hide."
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"What people are afraid of isn't failure. It's blame. Criticism."
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"If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either."
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"Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear."
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"Playing the game is a form of winning the game. In those competitions, we win by being resilient."
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"Making an average pitch to average people, or having an average gala for average people isn't going to scale anymore. You've got to find the people who care. Those people are worth all of your time."
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"The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one."
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"What if getting bigger isn't the point? What if you merely got better?"
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"Now for the first time, you can choose yourself. You can be responsible for what you do and how you do it. You have to do the hard work of finding and pleasing an audience."
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"It's far easier to put your future into someone else's hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go."
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"You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night."
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"No one can be responsible for where or how we each begin. No one has the freedom to do anything or everything, and all choices bring consequences. What we choose to do next, though, how to spend our resources or attention or effort, this is what defines us."
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"The thing is, the future happens. Every single day, like it or not. Sure, tomorrow is risky, frightening and in some way represents one step closer to the end. But it also brings with it the possibility of better and the chance to do something that matters."
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