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It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts.
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Piracy is not the problem, obscurity is.
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Great work is always shunned at first.
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A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, they’re doing work that most any trained person could do.
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Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.
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My problem with the search for the badge of real is that it trades your goals and your happiness for someone else's.
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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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Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.
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Those that spend the most effort in search of shortcuts are often the most disappointed and the least successful.
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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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A well-defined backup plan is sabotage waiting to happen. Why push through the dip, why take the risk, why blow it all when there's the comfortable alternative instead? The people who break through usually have nothing to lose, and they almost never have a backup plan.
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In general, organizations are afraid to fire customers, no matter how unreasonable. This is a mistake. It's good for you.
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It's never too late to start heading in the right direction.
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One bad review doesn't ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.
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Permission marketing turns strangers into friends and friends into loyal customers. It's not just about entertainment - it's about education. Permission marketing is curriculum marketing.
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Turn strangers into friends. Turn friends into donors. And then do the most important job: Turn your donors into fundraisers.
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No more than six words on a slide. Ever. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken.
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The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it's allowed is silos of interest.
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People are buying only one thing from you: the way the engagement (hiring you, working with you, dating you, using your product or service, learning from you) makes them feel.
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Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
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Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map.
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The way the world works now, the way the rules of engagement operate, you can't claim to make sense out of the exterior without booking voyages into the interior. Think about it: How can you understand 'it' if you haven't made any effort to understand 'you'? Because what you're really doing is establishing a living, electrical, vital, energetic connection between it and you. You're creating both of them, simultaneously. A lot like quantum physics.
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It's not an accident that successful people read more books.
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Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.
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