I don't think we have any choice. I think we have an obligation to change the rules, to raise the bar, to play a different game, and to play it better than anyone has any right to believe is possible.
Remarkable work often comes from making choices when everyone else feels as though there is no choice.
Choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You’re not born this way, you get this way.
The problem with putting it all on the line is that it might not work out. The problem with not putting it all on the line is that it will never (ever) change things for the better. Not much of a choice, I think.
You don't have to settle. It's a choice you get to make every day.
I'm not proposing that you let the crowd dictate, or that you work hard to fit in. Far from it. I'm proposing that you know the impact your choices are having and act accordingly.
No one can be responsible for where or how we each begin. No one has the freedom to do anything or everything, and all choices bring consequences. What we choose to do next, though, how to spend our resources or attention or effort, this is what defines us.
Saying no to loud people gives you the resources to say yes to important opportunities.
If you could do tomorrow over again, would you?
Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.
We notice what we choose to notice.
Who gets to decide what you want?
I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit's way of whispering, I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here.
If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning?
If you're not proud of where you work, go work somewhere else.
The competitive advantages the marketplace demands is someone more human, connected, and mature. Someone with passion and energy, capable of seeing things as they are and negotiating multiple priorities as she makes useful decisions without angst. Flexible in the face of change, resilient in the face of confusion. All of these attributes are choices, not talents, and all of them are available to you.
You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.
Marketing used to be what you say Now, marketing is what you do. What you make. How you act. The choices you make when you are sure no one is looking.
Everyone picks the best one when given a choice.
If you're not willing to face the abyss of choice, you will almost certainly not spend enough time dancing with opportunity.
Mostly, the best way to be the next Mark Zuckerberg is to make difficult choices.
And it doesn't matter to me whether you're running a coffee shop or you're an intellectual or you're in business or flying hot air balloons. People who can spread ideas, regardless of what those ideas are, win. But consumers, they got way more choices than they used to and way less time.
We have little choice but to move beyond quality and seek remarkable, connected, and new. Remarkable, as you've already figured out, demands initiative.
And in a world where we have too many choices and too little time, the obvious thing to do is just ignore stuff. And my parable here is, you're driving down the road and you see a cow, and you keep driving 'cause you've seen cows before. Cows are invisible. Cows are boring. Who's going to stop and pull over and say, oh, look, a cow? Nobody.
Leadership is a choice. It's the choice not to do nothing.
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