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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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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For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.
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It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.
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Does capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the loss of life appear light to them; and it renders life insecure, inasmuch as the law holds out that property is of greater value than life.
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
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I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.
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Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
