"Flexible in the face of change, resilient in the face of confusion. All of these attributes are choices, not talents, and all of them are available to you."
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"Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed."
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"The opportunity is not in being momentarily popular with the anonymous masses. It's in being missed when you're gone, in doing work that matters to the tribe you choose."
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"We long to connect, all of us. We long to be noticed, to be cared for, to matter. Generosity is the invisible salve on our wound of loneliness, one that benefits both sides, over and over again."
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"It's entirely possible that there won't be a standing ovation at the end of your journey. That's okay. At least you lived."
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"Risking the appearance of weakness takes strength. And the market knows it."
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"Self sufficiency appears to be a worthy goal, but it's now impossible if you want to actually get anything done. All our productivity, leverage and insight comes from being part of a community, not apart from it. The goal, I think, is to figure out how to become more dependent, not less."
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"Where do you go to get permission to make a dent in the Universe ? If you think there's a chance you can make a dent, go !"
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"No one ever gets talker's block. No one wakes up in the morning, discovers he has nothing to say, and sits quietly, for days or weeks, until the muse hits, until the moment is right, until all the craziness in his life has died down."
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"Competition and the market are like water, they go where they want"
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"Every day I meet people who have so much to give but have been...frighten ed enough to hold it back. It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. You have brilliance in you, your contribution is essential, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do it, and you must."
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"Personalizatio n wasn't supposed to be a cleverly veiled way to chase prospects around the web, showing them the same spammy ad for the same lame stuff as everyone else sees. No, it is a chance to differentiate at a human scale, to use behavior as the most important clue about what people want and more important, what they need."
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"Average feels safe but it's not. It's invisible."
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"I've never once met a successful blogger who questioned the personal value of what she did."
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"Embracing the fear of freedom, deciding to determine your own path, this is the work of a grownup."
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"A one-hit wonder is a legend who stopped early."
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"Ideas don't get smaller when they're shared, they get bigger."
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"All the good things in my career are a direct descendant of what I did and learned at # camp"
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"It might be bold to put your work into the world unadorned, but it's probably ineffective."
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"My new favorite word is 'awkward.'...Th e reason we need to be in search of awkward is that awkward is the barrier between us and excellence, between where we are and the remarkable. If it were easy, everyone would have done it already, and it wouldn't be worth the effort."
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