"Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another."
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"The challenge is simple: Quitting when you hit the Dip is a bad idea. If the journey you started was worth doing, then quitting when you hit the Dip just wastes the time you’ve already invested. Quit in the Dip often enough and you’ll find yourself becoming a serial quitter, starting many things but accomplishing little. Simple: If you can’t make it through the Dip, don’t start. If you can embrace that simple rule, you’ll be a lot choosier about which journeys you start."
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"No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it's true. On the other hand, it's only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by."
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"The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible."
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"Following instructions is overrated."
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"Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself."
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"Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed."
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"Getting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it's not a plan. It's a version of waiting and hoping."
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"If you speak up online and your ideas have currency, people are going to show up and want to connect with you. What we need more of are people with the guts and emotional labour to do this. The greatest shortage in today's society is an instinct to produce."
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"The edge is a great place to be. Inside the box is too dark. Outside the box, there's no leverage. But on the edge of the box, you can get things done!"
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"If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living."
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"I see things differently when I'm focused on opening doors for other people, and more often than not, my doors are opened as well."
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"Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it."
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"Transformation al leaders don't start by denying the world around them. Instead, they describe a future they'd like to create instead."
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"Persistent people are able to visualize the idea of light at the end of the tunnel when others can't see it"
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"Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens."
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"Just imagine how much you'd get done if you stopped actively sabotaging your own work."
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"How do I dance with the fear? Fear is not the enemy. Paralysis is the enemy."
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"If you believe that a given situation should make you unhappy, then it will, and the unhappiness will then reinforce the condition."
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"No organization ever created an innovation. People innovate, not companies."
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