Seth Godin
The linchpin feels the fear, acknowledges it, then proceeds.
If you want to be a linchpin, the power you bring to the table has to be very difficult to replace. Be bolder and think bigger. Nothing is stopping you.
The indispensable employee brings humanity and connection and art to her organization.
Where do you go to get permission to make a dent in the universe? If you think there’s a chance you can make a dent, go.
You have brilliance in you. Your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.
“The core of education is this: developing the capacity to concentrate. The fruits of this capacity we call civilization.”
“There is a time in every education when we arrive at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.”
“Art: the transfer of emotion from one person to another. Doing something new, doing it for the first time, and doing it in a way that touches people.”