Seth Godin Quotes
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It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
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Defending Congressional authority should not be a partisan issue.
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I have a friend - I send her one text and I get 20 texts back. Guys don't want a million texts. It's exhausting.
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Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale.
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In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.
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Nobody rises above mediocrity unless they use the brains of other people.
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It feels so exhausting to be so bad at something I loved so much.
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Your close men friends should be willing to challenge your mediocrity by suggesting a concrete action you can perform that will pop you out of your rut, one way or the other. And you must be willing to offer them your brutal honesty, in the same way, if you are all to grow.
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Never let the limitations or insecurities of others limit what is possible for you.
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When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.
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Nothing is quite as satisfying and exhausting as teaching.
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There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
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To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness.
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It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.
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Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.
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Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
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When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
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A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.
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You know better than I that in a Republic talent is always suspect. A man attains an elevated position only when his mediocrity prevents him from being a threat to others. And for this reason a democracy is never governed by the most competent, but rather by those whose insignificance will not jeopardize anyone else's self-esteem.
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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was.
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Nobody actually ever does this—escaping through a window.
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I always channeled what I felt emotionally into skiing - my insecurities, my anger, my disappointment. Skiing was always my outlet, and it worked.
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Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
