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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I remember the first film I did, the lead actor would, in between scenes, be reading a newspaper or sleeping and I'd think, 'How can you do that?' But it's so exhausting, you can't be 'on' 12-14 hours a day.
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If you act scared, your body produces adrenaline.
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The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.
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...I prefer not to have among my guests two people or more, of any sex, who are in the first wild tremours of love. It is better to invite them after their new passion has settled, has solidified into a quieter reciprocity of emotions. (It is also a waste of good food, to serve it to new lovers.)
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You want sanity, democracy, community, an intact Earth? We can't get there, obeying Constitutional theory and law crafted by slave masters, imperialists, corporate masters, and Nature destroyers. We can't get there, kneeling before robed lawyers stockpiling class plunder precedent up their venerable sleeves. So isn't disobedience the challenge of our age? Principled, inventive, escalating disobedience to liberate our souls, to transfigure our work as humans on this Earth.
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Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
