Seth Godin Quotes
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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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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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Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
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Formal declarations of mistrust, pre-nups are emotionally unfortunate. They overtly plan for failure, and thus involve a jarring cognitive dissonance.
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So long as TARP money is wrapped up in GM, the company will never shake its 'Government Motors' image. That label, as competitors and GM employees are keenly aware, is code for one thing: 'GM is a failure.'
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You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.
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The whole reason we organize grassroots is, we think any politician that gets elected needs to be held accountable 365 days a year.
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Making movies was a real weird kind of adult experience. In a way it was like MIT, in that it was a great education. The big lesson is, people are people. They're smart, funny, creative people, but they're people.
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Really, this might be my worst year when you consider all the expectations I had coming in. I thought I'd do a lot more. I thought we'd do a lot better.
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People are not afraid of failure, they're afraid of blame.
