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Courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.
Hatred of war will not bring peace. Only love of peace will bring about those conditions.
When you see the world as it is, but insist on making it more like it could be, you matter.
Relying too much on proof distracts you from the real mission–which is emotional connection.
It's unlikely that you'll create something scarce without doing something risky to get there.
As an organization grows and succeeds, it sows the seeds of its own demise by getting boring.
When you focus on delighting an audience you care about, you strip the masses of their power.
Freedom isn't the ability to do whatever you want. It's the willingness to do whatever you want.
Take a chance on your own abilities clearly, neither exaggerating them nor under-assessing them.
Giving your team cover for their cowardice is foolish. Give them a platform for bravery instead.
A generation that hates war will not bring peace. A generation that loves peace will bring peace.
Ship small art. Then, ship medium art. Then, ship world-changing, scary, change-your-underwear art.
Choose your customers. Fire the ones that hurt your ability to deliver the right story to the others.
You don't launch a popular blog, you build one. The writing isn't the hard part, it's the commitment.
We believe what we want to believe, and once we believe something, it becomes a self-fulfilling truth.
It's sad and upsetting when you see somebody crying hysterically, but at the same time it's real funny.
Anyone who takes responsibility for getting something done is welcome to ask for the authority to do it.
The dreamer creates his dreams for his own purposes, selecting only those symbols which have meaning to him.
An artists is someone who does something for the first time, something human, something that touches another.
Marketing is about spreading ideas, and spreading ideas is the single most important output of our civilization.
The only purpose of starting is to finish, and while the projects we do are never really finished, they must ship.
On the one hand you take life too seriously, and on the other, you do not take playful existence seriously enough.
Extraordinary benefits accrue to the tiny minority of people who are able to push just a tiny bit longer than most.
The only real help is self-help. Anything else is just designed to get you to the point where you can help yourself.
It's never too late to redefine self-control, to change long-ingrained habits, and to do the work you're capable of.
Leaps look good in the movies, but in fact, success is mostly about finding a path and walking it one step at a time.
If you make a difference, people will gravitate to you. They want to engage, to interact and to get you more involved.
If you want to know what you think of yourself, then ask yourself what you think of others and you will find the answer.
The Internet is going to change marketing before it changes almost anything else, and old marketing will die in its path.
There's a huge difference between the shallow pleasure of instant applause and the long-lasting impact of true connection.
Sometimes we spend more time than we should defending the old thing, instead of working to take advantage of the new thing.
My life is mine and I form it. Tell yourself this often. Create your own life now, using your beliefs as an artist uses color.
If your team is filled with people who work for the company, you'll soon be defeated by tribes of people who work for a cause.
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?
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.
You will not understand your part within the framework of nature until you actually see yourselves in danger of tearing it apart.
If you are love with the perfect, prepare to see it swept away. If you are able to dream of the impossible, it just might happen.
The best experiences and the biggest ideas don't fit into a category. They change it. They don't get filed away, they transform us.
When you delight the weird, the overlooked and the outliers, they are significantly more likely to talk about you and recommend you.
You must realize that what you are cannot be seen in a mirror. What you see in a mirror is but a dim reflection of your true reality.
We can't rely on others to be our teachers anymorethe future belongs to individuals who decide to become great bosses (and teachers).
We happily give up our freedom and our income in exchange for having someone else take responsibility for telling us what to do next.
Micro trends matter more than macro ones, but most of all, people matter. Individual human beings with names and wants and interests.
You can spend your time on stage pleasing the heckler in the back, or you can devote it to the audience that came to hear you perform.
It is very important that you express your idealism actively, to what ever extent you can, for this increases your sense of worth and power.
While someone can attempt to shame you, shame must also be accepted to be effective. We can't make you feel shame without your participation.
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.
What could you measure? What would that cost? How fast could you get the results? If you can afford it, try it. If you measure it, it will improve.
Creating ideas that spread and connecting the disconnected are the two pillars of our new society, and both of them require the posture of the artist
It takes a lot of guts to stop measuring things that are measurable, and even more guts to create things that don't measure well by conventional means.