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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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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Men in general are too material and do not make enough human contacts. If we search for the fundamentals which actually motivate us we will find that they come under four headings: love, money, adventure and religion. It is to some of them that we always owe that big urge which pushes us onward. Men who crush these impulses and settle down to everyday routine are bound to sink into mediocrity. No man is a complete unit of himself; he needs the contact, the stimulus and the driving power which is generated by his contact with other men, their ideas, and constantly changing scenes.
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War is possible only if you have a lot of enemies. If all the enemies get together and form one front - if you cut down the number of enemies - there would be no war.
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We're wanted men, we'll strike again, but first let's have a beer.
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We take as given the idea of distinction and the idea of indication, and that one cannot make an indication without drawing a distinction. We take therefore the form of distinction for the form.
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He's a guy that didn't hesitate at all, just jumped right into the challenge and looked forward to the opportunity. He's definitely a big guy that can move around and do good things.
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Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
