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“Your biggest failure is the thing you dreamed of contributing but didn't find the guts to do.” quote by Seth Godin — Download Open image

“Your biggest failure is the thing you dreamed of contributing but didn't find the guts to do.”

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“You weren't born to be a cog in the giant industrial machine. You were trained to become a cog. There's an alternative available to…

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Forgive yourself for not being the richest, the thinnest, the tallest, the one with the best hair. Forgive yourself for not being the most…

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The easier it is to quantify, the less it's worth.

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Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman.

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Leadership is a choice. It's the choice not to do nothing.

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The next thing you do today will be the most important thing on your agenda, because, after all, you're doing it next. Well, perhaps…

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I look at Starbucks, Howard Schultz has made many brilliant decisions, and one of the things that they did was they invented the third space. It's not work, it's not home. That's one of the engines of its spread. But at the same time he was doing that, he bet the farm to open more and more stores in any…

Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.

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The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.

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Making an average pitch to average people, or having an average gala for average people isn't going to scale anymore. You've got to find…

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Our job is to make change. Our job is to connect to people, to interact with them in a way that leaves them better…

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“Life is actually far better than it is in the movies. And it takes longer.”

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I just know that I wasn't happy where I was. I didn't feel complete. I didn't feel like I was contributing what I needed…

Teddy Pendergrass

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Bisexuals need to recognize that their being closeted is a huge contributing factor to the hostility they face.

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A moment I've been dreading. George brought his ne're-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the political one who lives in Florida. The one who hangs around here all the time looking shiftless. This so-called kid is already almost 40 and has never had a real job. Maybe I'll call Kinsley over…

Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or…

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Our revolution is like Wikipedia, okay? Everyone is contributing content, [but] you don't know the names of the people contributing the content. This is…

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If and when I decide to retire I want to perform. I want to be on the ice. I want to continue contributing to…

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Violence in our society has reached epidemic proportions. ... Violence in the media for entertainment purposes has been established as a major contributing factor.

Deborah Prothrow-Stith

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Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's capacity for decent behavior seems to vary directly with his perception of others as individual humans with human motives and feelings, whereas his capacity for barbarism seems related to his perception of an adversary in abstract terms, as…

J. William Fulbright

Donald Trump has the media wrapped around his little finger. And this is a contributing factor to why so many people are bothered and…

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Hip-hop is contributing to American society's misogyny and racism, hyper-sexuality anti-Black representations. Hip-Hop isn't setting the standard for misogyny. No one reduces the presidency to misogyny, although we've had misogynistic presidents. No one reduces our government to being solely homophobic, although we have a government with a don't ask, don't tell policy for gays and lesbians in the military.

The most humble research scientist in the Department of Agriculture is at this time contributing more to this country than the most useful member…

Fiorello H. La Guardia

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The cost of failure is really high when you’re contributing as yourself,

Christopher Poole

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