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Even if only a few people use precise words, employ thoughtful reasoning and ask difficult questions, it still forces those around them to catch up.

Seth Godin

No one ever innovated while working on what they were supposed to be working on. It can be difficult to accept that a well-designed task list represents everything that you should not do, if you want a creative outcome. But for predictable outcomes, there's no substitute for practice, planning, and extreme discipline. Our world needs both.

Eddie Smith

Momentum is a lot like trust: hard to build and super easy to destroy.

Brett Kelly

If you ever have the chance to lose everything in your life, some of it voluntarily, and leave your current place to live in a succession of new places, hosted by friends, never really knowing what’s next or if that person you just met will have an impact on your life because each connection is blazing with this almost visible energy and the connections keep winding tighter and tighter, faster and faster, I suggest you take the opportunity and enjoy the ride, even if you have to learn, maybe for the first time, what it means to enjoy any ride.

Jason Rehmus

No matter what anyone says, stay weird. - An 8 Year Old

Being comfortable being uncomfortable is a very effective way to be a human.

Rachel Ward

Your brain protects you in strange ways. Enthusiasm might not be strategic. You’re underestimating the people you trust.

Michael Lopp

Wouldn't it be great if we knew what our regrets were when we still had time to do something about them?

Seth Godin

My son is the best adventure I can have. Nothing else in my life is as dangerous or joyful or exhausting, nothing else — no movie, company or creation — elicits the depth of feeling from within me that my sons have.

Chase Reeves

We are all many things. We all do many things. We will do many more things throughout our lives. Yet, when we are gone, most will primarily remember only one of them. They will pick from the lot and remember you as that. What they pick will, in their mind at least, be all that you are. Therefore, it is our job to ask ourselves with all the things we allow ourselves to do, with each and every one, “Is this something I want to be remembered for?”

Patrick Rhone

So called ‘late-bloomers’ get a bad rap. Sometimes the people with the greatest potential often take the longest to find their path because their sensitivity is a double edged sword- it lives at the heart of their brilliance, but it also makes them more susceptible to life’s pains. Good thing we aren’t being penalized for handing in our purpose late. The soul doesn’t know a thing about deadlines.

Jeff Brown

Procrastination is your current actualized self passive aggressively getting back at your unrealistic past self.

Eddie Smith

If we live behind a mask we can impress, but not connect.

Donald Miller

While everybody is invited, not everyone is willing.

Donald Miller

Give the people what they want isn't nearly as powerful as teaching people what they need.

Seth Godin

The way one arranges a living space tells me a whole lot about what is important to the people that live in it.

Patrick Rhone

Patience is not waiting for something. Patience is a type of organizing that respects the development of the environment and the self.

Kourosh Dini

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