Seth Godin Quotes
The media wants overnight successes (so they have someone to tear down). Ignore them. Ignore the early adopter critics that never have enough to play with. Ignore your investors that want proven tactics and predictable instant results. Listen instead to your real customers, to your vision and make something for the long haul. Because that's how long it's going to take, guys.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.
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I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.
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I have very long, wild hair, a suntan and wear knee high boots and ignore all the rules about what you should or shouldn't wear at whatever age.
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I'm never going to apologize for having a lot of guy friends, and I always have. That happens, and I'm not going to live my life where I'm not going to go out and have a coffee or lunch with my guy friends.
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I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.
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If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
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One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.
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I'm not a party guy, and I'm not a Hollywood guy, either.
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It's a sad commentary when I have to say that sometimes in our country we are real sensitive to race.
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My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'
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As long as there is no proselytism... we must facilitate the partnership between parents and schools.
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The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
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As long as the cheques carry on coming in, and I'm enjoying my work, I shall continue acting.
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You'll never meet a nicer guy than Owen Wilson.
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We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
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Basically, Walkers are putting real produce into their flavours, so the cheese and onion flavour is actually cheese and onion rather than just flavourings.
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Back 12 years ago, when Dr. Mathews was president here, we had a plan that when I got ready to quit, we'd bring a certain guy in and he'd take over that day and I'd leave. But as time wore on, I realized that wouldn't have been good at all.
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Pussy said to the Owl, 'You elegant fowl!How charmingly sweet you sing!O let us be married! too long we have tarried:But what shall we do for a ring?'
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Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.
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I am the sort of guy who does go to modern art shows.
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I think that what happens is that all of my modern influences blend together with the older soul influences and you get Mayer Hawthorne.
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In the case of a state that is seeking not conquest but the maintenance of its security, the aim is fulfilled if the threat is removed - if the enemy is led to abandon his purpose.
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The media wants overnight successes (so they have someone to tear down). Ignore them. Ignore the early adopter critics that never have enough to play with. Ignore your investors that want proven tactics and predictable instant results. Listen instead to your real customers, to your vision and make something for the long haul. Because that's how long it's going to take, guys.
