Seth Godin Quotes
Excellence isn’t about working extra hard to do what you’re told. It’s about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.
Quotes to Explore
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If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
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I love New York. It's hard to explain, but it's the energy of the city. It's not like L.A. where everything is spread out.
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I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!
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If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.
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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
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When I get on a roll with something, it's really hard for me to put it down unfinished.
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It's hard to do a reality show when there's so much crying and drama.
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Screaming is hard after a while.
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Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.
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Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
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I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.
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Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
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We are accustomed in England to chalk in rolling downs, except where bitten into by the sea, but elsewhere it is riven and presents cliffs, and these cliffs are not at all like that of Shakespeare at Dover but overhang, where hard beds alternate with others that are friable.
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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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I've been told from the start, 'Don't fall in love with the horses'. But that's so hard. I'm in awe.
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The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
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Good scripts are hard to find.
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Moving from Rome to Brussels was hard.
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Experience is only half of experience.
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I absolutely love Nicole Scherzinger. She's worked really hard to get to where she is and really knows her stuff.
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When a woman is fit and healthy, everything else falls into place. We are conditioned to put others first, that 'burnt chop syndrome' we observed in our mothers. It takes discipline to pay attention to our diets, to exercise, to leave time for refreshment of mind, body and spirit.
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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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No doubt very few people understand the purely subjective nature of the phenomenon that we call love, or how it creates, so to speak, a supplementary person, distinct from the person whom the world knows by the same name, a person most of whose constituent elements are derived from ourselves.
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Excellence isn’t about working extra hard to do what you’re told. It’s about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.
