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Gifts are not favors. If you expect something in return, it's not a gift.

Favors, Gift, Ifs, Return

The resistance is not something to be avoided, it's something to seek out.

Avoided, Resistance, Seek

We’ve been trained to prefer being right to learning something, to prefer passing the test to making a difference, and most of all, to prefer fitting in with the right people, the people with economic power. Now it’s your turn to stand up and stand out.

Differences, Making, Making A Difference, People, Power, Prefer

The sound of a small bell during a dark night, is louder than the din of traffic outside your window during rush hour. Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.

Bell, Dark, Impact, Night

Who gets to decide what you want?

Choices, Decide, Gets, Want, What You Want

Art is a human act, a generous contribution, something that might not work, and it is intended to change the recipient for the better, often causing a connection to happen.

Act, Art, Causing, Connections, Contribution, Might

The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else.

Grudge, Hands, Onto, Problem

The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.

Bases, Basis, Firsts, Matter, Matters, Rule

The mirror we hold up to the person next to us is one of the most important pictures she will ever see.

Important, Mirrors, Next, Person, Pictures, See

Many Things That Are True Are True Because You Believe Them.

Believe, Things, True

Leaders who set out to give are more productive than leaders who seek to get.

Giving, Leader, Leaders, Productive, Seek, Set

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.

Accomplish Your Goals, Artist, Insisted, Leader, Sit, Yesterday

People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.

About Yourself, Effective, People, Talking

Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has.

Faster, Jobs, Learning, Light, Teach

How do I dance with the fear? Fear is not the enemy. Paralysis is the enemy.

Inspirational, Inspiration, Enemy, Paralysis, Fear, Dance

Basically you create your experience through your beliefs about yourself and the nature of reality. Another way to understand this is to realize that you create your experiences through your expectations.

Expectations, Experience, Nature, Reality, Realize

Now, before sliced bread was invented in the 1910s I wonder what they said? Like the greatest invention since the telegraph or something. But. . . the thing about the invention of sliced bread is this - that for the first 15 years after sliced bread was available no one bought it; no one knew about it; it was a complete and total failure.

Bread, Failure, Firsts, Greatest, Said, Years

To make a product, to market an idea, to come up with any problem you want to solve that doesn't have a constituency with an otaku, is almost impossible. . . There's a hot sauce otaku, but there's no mustard otaku.

Come, Constituency, Hot, Ideas, Impossible, Want

You can risk being wrong or you can be boring.

Boring, Motivational, Risk, Wrong

Fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to their faith before they explore it. As opposed to a curious person who explores first and then considers whether or not they want to accept the ramifications.

Acceptable, Curiosity, Explore, Explores, Firsts, Want

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