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“Seizing new ground, making connections between people or ideas, working without a map-these are works of art, and if you do them, you are an artist, regardless of whether you wear a smock, use a computer, or work with others all day long.”

People Ifs Long Art Ideas Use Artist Inspirational Life Computer Connections Maps Works Of Art Seizing

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“Being an artist isn't a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It's an attitude we can all adopt. It's a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you're an artist.”

Ifs Artist Attitude Talent Inspirational Life Connections Hunger Maps Disposition Being An Artist

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“Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.”

Ifs Ideas Enough Good Ideas Bad Ideas Motivational Business

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“So sure, start with a slogan. But don't bother wasting any time on it if you're merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead.”

Ifs Aim Bother Slogans Catchy

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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.”

People Ifs Want Needs Ideas Shows Today Speak Produce Emotional Instinct Guts Labour Online Currency Shortage Today's Society

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“If you take action, you will be judged. There's no way around it. The alternative, of course, is much safer. To be ignored. Up to you.”

Ifs Way Action Courses Alternatives Judged Ignored Up To You

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“What if getting bigger isn't the point? What if you merely got better?”

Ifs Bigger What If

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“All good ideas are terrible... Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part.”

People Ifs Ideas Realizing Stage Willing Terrible Obvious Good Ideas

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“What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer? If you're not, you're wasting away.”

Ifs Asks Answers Excited

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“I think if you're remarkable, amazing or just plain spectacular, you probably shouldn't have a resume at all.”

Ifs Thinking Remarkable Spectacular Resumes

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“The first thing you do when you sit down at the computer: If you're an artist, a leader or someone seeking to make a difference, the first thing you do should be to lay tracks to accomplish your goals, not to hear how others have reacted/ responded/ insisted to what happened yesterday.”

Ifs Should Firsts Artist Goal Differences Leader Happened Computer Lays Track Seeking Accomplish Yesterday Making A Difference Accomplish Your Goals

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“Living with doubt ... is almost always more profitable than living with certainty. People don't like doubt, so they pay money and give up opportunities to avoid it. Entrepreneurshi p is largely about living with doubt. If you need reassurance, you're giving up quite a bit to get it. On the other hand, if you can get in the habit of seeking out uncertainty, you'll have developed a great instinct.”

People Ifs Needs Giving Hands Opportunity Bits Pay Doubt Habit Giving Up Instinct Seeking Certainty Uncertainty Profitable Reassurance

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“If you wait until you are ready, it is almost certainly too late.”

Ifs Waiting Ready Late Too Late

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“One theory says that if you treat people well, you're more likely to encourage them to do what you want, making all the effort pay off. Do this, get that. Another one, which I prefer, is that you might consider treating people with kindness merely because you can. Regardless of what they choose to do in response, this is what you choose to do. Because you can.”

People Ifs Want Inspirational Wells Might Motivational Effort Pay Kindness Theory Treats Response What You Want You Choose

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“Effort is its own reward if you allow it to be.”

Ifs Effort Rewards

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“Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.”

Ifs Art Would Be Tragedy Bills Wrecks

Book:Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

“Life is not about gutting out every situation. It's about identifying opportunity or the lack thereof. If your pride is all that is standing in the way of quitting, quit. The right people won't care and the wrong people don't matter. If you know you're on the right path, persevere though the pain. It will be worth it.”

People Ifs Knows Way Matter Care Pain Life Is Opportunity Situation Path Pride Standing Quitting Worth It Persevere Identifying Right Path

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“You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.”

People Ifs Success Listening Entrepreneur Deep Thought Key To Success Observing Effectiveness Road To Success Recipe For Success

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“Everyone has a comfort zone. Worth considering: How hard (and how often) are you willing to work to get out of it? You can turn that into a habit if you choose.”

Ifs Hard Turns Willing Habit Comfort Zone You Choose Considering Comfort Zone

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“If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we're going to do important work”

People Ifs Important Matter Problem Values Fall Building Creating Connections Falling In Love Valuable Serving Problem Solving Important Work Creating Value

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“You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.”

Ifs Willing Mass Delight Best Work

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“The only reason to build a website is to change someone. If you can't tell me the change and you can't tell me the someone, then you're wasting your time.”

Ifs Reason Website Wasting Your Time

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“This might end up in crying. If you're not prepared to cry about it, I'm not sure you're making art. And if you're not prepared to dance in anticipation, you're definitely not making art.”

Ifs Art Ends Might Cry Prepared Not Sure Anticipation

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“If you're in the idea business, it doesn't matter where you're from. It matters if we care about the change you're making.”

Ifs Ideas Matter Care

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“If you can influence the outcome, do the work. If you can't influence the outcome, ignore the possibility. It's merely a distraction.”

Ifs Influence Possibility Outcomes Distraction

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“If you demand that everything that happens be something you are adequately prepared for, I wonder if you’ve chosen never to leap in ways that we need you to leap. Once we embrace this chasm, then for the things for which we can never be prepared, we are of course, always prepared.”

Ifs Way Needs Happens Courses Wonder Demand Embrace Prepared Chosen Leap Be Prepared Need You Chasms

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“Your drudgery is another person's delight. It's only a job if you treat it that way. The privilege to do our work, to be in control of the promises we make and the things we build, is something worth cherishing.”

Ifs Way Persons Jobs Promise Treats Privilege Delight Cherish Drudgery

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“Excellence isn’t about meeting the spec, it’s about setting the spec. It defines what the consumer sees as quality right this minute, and tomorrow, if you’re good, you’ll reset that expectation again”

Ifs Quality Minutes Tomorrow Expectations Meetings Excellence Setting Settings Consumers Reset Specs

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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.”

Ifs Writing Art Plans Performing Blogging Shortcuts Performing Arts Making A Living

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“If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do it. And yet our schools are churning out kids who are stuck looking for jobs where the boss tells them exactly what to do.”

Ifs Kids School Jobs Stuck Boss Cheaper Churning Looking For A Job

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“Sign your work...If you're not proud of it, don't ship it. If you are, sign your work and own the results. We'll know who to thank. If you work for a place where work goes unsigned (internally, in particular) it's worth asking why.”

Ifs Knows Results Particular Proud Asking Ships Asking Why

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“When you put your ideas in the world, then, and only then, do you know if they're real.”

Ifs Knows World Ideas Real Do You Know

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“No one can force you to stand up, speak up and make a difference. But if you back off and play along, please understand that whatever happens happened, at least in part, because you acquiesced.”

Ifs Play Happens Speak Force Differences Happened Please Making A Difference Whatever Happens

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“Human nature is to need a map. If you’re brave enough to draw one, people will follow.”

People Ifs Needs Humans Enough Human Nature Draws Brave Maps

Book:Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?

Source: Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?

“If not enough people doubt you, you're not making a difference.”

People Ifs Enough Differences Doubt Making A Difference

Book:The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?

Source: The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?

“Go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn't work. No sweat, no need to hyperventilate.”

Ifs Needs Decision Mistake Lessons Making Mistakes Temporary Sweat Learning Lessons

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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.”

Ifs Needs Reason Done Inspiration Easy Effort Excellence Remarkable Barriers Awkward Favorite Words

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“You can't control other people, and giving them the power to decide if you will continue to produce good work is foolish.”

People Ifs Giving Produce Foolish Good Work

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“If you want to be a leader, go lead”

Ifs Want Leader

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“If you want customers to hear about you, make something worth talking about.”

Ifs Want Talking Customers

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“If you hesitate to map out your future, to make a big plan or to set a goal, you've just gone ahead and mapped your future anyway.”

Ifs Bigs Goal Gone Plans Maps Our Future Your Future

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“If you're different somehow and have made yourself unique, people will find you and pay you more.”

People Ifs Made Different Pay Unique

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“If you don't require the journey to be easy or comfortable or safe, you can change the world.”

Ifs World Easy Journey Safe Comfortable Changing The World

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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 !”

Ifs Thinking Universe Chance Permission

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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.”

Ifs Thinking Want Self Done Goal Community Impossible Figures Insight Worthy Productivity Dependent Self Sufficiency Sufficiency

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“If you borrow money to make money, you've done something magical. On the other hand, if you go into debt to pay your bills or buy something you want but don't need, you've done something stupid. Stupid and short-sighted and ultimately life-changing for the worse.”

Ifs Want Needs Done Hands Pay Stupid Bills Debt Making Money Life Changing Need You Short Sighted Don't Need You

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“If you want to get in shape, go to the #‎ gym every single day, change your clothes and take a shower. If you can do that every single day for a month, pretty soon you'll start doing something while you're there.”

Ifs Want Can Do Months Shapes Clothes Gym Showers Getting In Shape

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“A customer is never out of warranty, even if his product is.”

Ifs Products Customers Warranty

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“As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.”

Ifs Matter Might Perfection Creator Pursuit Expenses Things That Matter Misguided Pursuit Of Perfection

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“If you're not willing to face the abyss of choice, you will almost certainly not spend enough time dancing with opportunity.”

Ifs Enough Faces Choices Opportunity Willing Dancing Abyss Enough Time

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