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"It's easy to be afraid of taking a plunge, because, after all, plunging is dangerous. And the fear is a safe way to do nothing at all. Wading, on the other hand, gets under the radar. It gives you a chance to begin."
"Too often, we don't give people the opportunity to fill in the blanks."
"Success brings with it the fear of blowing it. With more to lose, there's more pressure not to lose it."
"The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there's no ball, there's no game. Bullies hate that. So they'll either behave so they can play with you or they'll go bully someone else."
"It takes three years to be an overnight success, sometimes more."
"If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power."
"All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas."
"The way I understand gifts is that the giver must make a sacrifice, create an uneven exchange, bring himself closer to the recipient, create change and do it all with the right spirit."
"Art is the act of doing work that matters while dancing with the voice in your head that screams for you to stop."
"The resistance is not something to be avoided, it's something to seek out."
"We don't need more stuff, we need more humanity."
"We’ve been trained to prefer being right to learning something, to prefer passing the test to making a difference, and most of all, to prefer fitting in with the right people, the people with economic power. Now it’s your turn to stand up and stand out."
"One way to think about running a successful business is to figure out what the least you can do is, and do that."
"How often do our heroes stand still? It's hard to imagine Spock and Kirk landing on a planet and just relaxing for a month or two. Just hanging out has nothing to do with boldly going where no one has gone before. What makes us different from every other creature is that we go places, places we've not gone before. We do it willingly, and often. What makes our work and our life interesting is discovery, surprise, and the risk of exploration."
"The application process changes the list of who applies. Your applicants reflect your methods."
"Turn strangers into friends. Turn friends into donors. And then do the most important job: Turn your donors into fundraisers."
"The market and the consumer and idea trump the system."
"Success comes from doing the hard part. When the hard part is all you've got, you're more likely to do it. And this is precisely why it's difficult to focus. Because focusing means acknowledging that you just signed up for the hard part."
"The goal has never been to always succeed. The goal is to be allowed to keep initiating."
"If you've got the platform and the ability to make a difference, then this goes beyond 'should' and reaches the level of 'must.' You must make a difference or you squander the opportunity. Wasting the opportunity both degrades your own ability to contribute and, more urgently, takes something away from the rest of us."