Seth Godin Quotes
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.
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I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.
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I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
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I don't take it very seriously. You shouldn't let your success get to your head or failure get to your heart. This is most commonly said. But people don't really practise it. I don't see myself as a celebrity; it has not sunk in. I just see myself as someone doing a nine-to-six job like a techie.
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Poverty leads to hardship and failure.
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The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings.
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I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
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Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
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I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement.
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Once he had been so formidable that he was surrounded by enemies. Now even his enemies has lost interest in him. What clearer sign of failure could you find than that?
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There is something impure in the laments about the dangers of our time, as if they could serve to excuse our personal failure.
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To the eye of failure success is an accident.
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There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.
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The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.
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War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
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I know it wouldn't seem like I've had a lot of failure in my career, but there are things that I regard as failures, when I look at certain performances and go, 'That's not good enough.'
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Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.
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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.
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Things about yourself are never too terrible to say. It's only the things about the ones you love.
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We thought with Alix MacKenzie, if those are the kinds of pots from every culture that interest us, why would we think that it should be any different in mid-North America 20th century? And we decided then that our work would center around that sort of utilitarian pottery, and that's what I've done ever since.
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People are not afraid of failure, they're afraid of blame.
