Todd Henry Quotes

#1. Remember that common sense is not common practice, and that people who succeed are often those who do the little, everyday things that others won't.

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#2. some of the best ideas I've had in my life and in my work, they often occurred in the spaces "in between" my commitments. They materialized when I least expected, during a moment of downtime, and typically when I was doing something in no way related to the project.

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#3. It's all part of the process, and it's never ending. However, the key is to remain focused on your vision and embrace the journey.

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#4. Principle: To counter aimlessness, you must define your battles wisely, and build your life around winning them.

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#5. If you want to thrive, you need to systematically engage with other people, in part to be reminded that life is bigger than your immediate problems.

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#6. The most valuable land in the world is the graveyard. In the graveyard are buried all of the unwritten novels, never-launched businesses, unreconciled relationships, and all of the other things that people thought, 'I'll get around to that tomorrow.' One day, however, their tomorrows ran out.

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#7. pay attention to that little voice inside your head that sends you prompts, insights, and hunches. Note things that you don't understand, and rather than shying away from them, turn them into questions to pursue.

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#8. we show enough of ourselves to differentiate us from the competition, but not so much as to isolate us.

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#9. Don't go to your grave with your best work inside of you. Choose to die empty.

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#10. We need to fall in love with the process, not just the end product of our work.

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#11. You need to create space for your creative process to thrive rather than expect it to operate in the cracks of your frenetic schedule.

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#12. You can't just wait around for inspiration to strike - you have to aggressively pursue it by asking probing questions and mining your environment for the raw materials of brilliance.

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#13. Give yourself permission to not know things. Some people see ignorance as a point of failure, but successful people see it as acknowledgment of reality and an opportunity for growth.

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#14. No matter how successful or skilled you are, you will inevitably fail at many things in your work.

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#15. Two things will paralyze our creativity faster than anything else: 1. We haven't defined success. 2. We haven't defined failure.

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#16. Someone who operates from a place of wishful thinking is - in essence - a closet pessimist.

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#17. The great problems we see in the world today will not be solved by people functioning at half capacity cranking out work they don't care about in order to buy more things that will eventually rust and rot.

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#18. it's easy to confuse progress with effectiveness. All progress is not true progress. It's possible to gain ground for many days, weeks, months, or even years but be going in a completely wrong direction. That's

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#19. Our relationships will eventually grow stale unless we are diligent about directing and cultivating them.

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#20. Waiting for permission to act is the easy way out.

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#21. Your work tells tales.

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#22. A strong, authentic, compelling voice is the expression of identity, guided by vision, and achieved through mastery.

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#23. Nachmanovitch writes, "It's great to sit on the shoulders of giants, but don't let the giants sit on your shoulders. There's no room for their legs to dangle!

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#24. Make sure that you're nurturing your process. It's the only thing you can truly control, and it's the thing you'll always have regardless of where you end up.

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#25. Emptying yourself of your best work isn't just about checking off tasks on your to-do list; it's about making steady, critical progress each day on the projects that matter, in all areas of life.

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#26. we each have resonant frequencies that we respond to naturally, and when we encounter them in others, their words or actions are amplified in us and we begin to resonate with the other person.

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#27. The next great idea for your work will probably not come from watching your competitors, but from taking an insight from an unrelated industry and applying it to your own.

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#28. it can be beneficial to disconnect from certain sources of information and streams of content so that you can cultivate a more curated flow of inspiration.

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#29. perpetual inbox obsession wasn't an organizational expectation; rather, it was fueled by a deep insecurity that something important was going to happen and that he wouldn't respond in time to contribute meaningfully to the conversation.

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#30. A lifetime of mediocrity is a high price to pay for safety.

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#31. Knowing does nothing for you - it's doing that matters.

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#32. We need to overcome this fear of insignificance and replace it with a mind-set of contribution.

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#33. Don't go to the grave with your best work still inside of you. Die empty.

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#34. No matter what you say about your priorities, where you spend money and your time will prove them out.

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#35. You must get comfortable with eliminating things in your life that are getting in the way of clarity and focus.

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