"Don’t try to please everyone. There are countless people who don’t want one, haven’t heard of one or actively hate it. So what?"
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"As an organization grows and succeeds, it sows the seeds of its own demise by getting boring."
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"The scalable, profitable strategy is to change the game, not to become the most average."
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"The easiest thing is to react. The second easiest thing is to respond. But the hardest thing is to initiate. – When people ask you to tell them what to do, resist."
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"We happily give up our freedom and our income in exchange for having someone else take responsibility for telling us what to do next."
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"The past existed in multitudinous ways. You only experienced one probable past. By changing this past in your mind, now, in your present, you can change not only its nature but its effect, and not only upon yourself but upon others."
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"In your system of reality you are learning what mental energy is, and how to use it. You do this by constantly transforming your thought and emotions into physical form. You are supposed to get a clear picture of your inner development by perceiving the exterior environment. What seems to be a perception, an objective concrete event independent from you, is instead the materialization of your own inner emotions, energy, and mental environment."
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"As far as you are concerned the present is your point of action, focus and power, and from that point of volition you form both your future and past. Realizing this, you will understand that you are not at the mercy of a past over which you have no control."
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"The miracle of your being cannot escape itself. Your thoughts blossom into events. Your beliefs grow as surely in time and space as flowers do."
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"It's sad and upsetting when you see somebody crying hysterically, but at the same time it's real funny."
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"We must be talented, powerful and resilient creatures indeed given how much we manage to produce despite the constant undercutting, ridicule and needless censorship we aim at ourselves."
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"You don't launch a popular blog, you build one. The writing isn't the hard part, it's the commitment."
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"Anyone who takes responsibility for getting something done is welcome to ask for the authority to do it."
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"It doesn't matter if you're right, it matters if you are understood."
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"Cosmo Girl with a passion for fashion and a magic flask."
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"I'm not sure there's any number of Facebook likes that can replace a hug."
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"The paradox is that by the time you get to be senior, the decisions that matter the most are the ones that would be best made made by people who are junior."
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"It's not enough to be aware of the domain you're working in, you need to understand it. Noticing things and being curious about how they work is the single most common trait I see in creative people. Once you can break the components down, you can put them back together into something brand new."
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"A good job is largely anonymous and forgotten (but still important). A personal job, on the other hand, is humanized. It brings us closer together. It might not be remarkable, but it stands out as memorable because (however briefly) the recipient of the work was touched by someone else. Often, remarkable work is personal too, but personal might just be enough for today."
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"You know something is important when you're willing to let someone else take the credit if that's what it takes to get it done."
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