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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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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I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.
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Failure is just a way for our lives to show us we're moving in the wrong direction, that we should try something different.
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The borderline between prose and poetry is one of those fog-shrouded literary minefields where the wary explorer gets blown to bits before ever seeing anything clearly. It is full of barbed wire and the stumps of dead opinions.
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Well, as I said, you know the issue of Greek debt, they've grasped the principle of debt reduction. I think most people would argue that probably more needs to be done on that front, and they've just begun to take the first steps to accepting that there's going to have to be much closer economic integration in Europe.
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People are not afraid of failure, they're afraid of blame.
