Seth Godin Quotes
The goal in blogging/ business/ inspiring non-fiction is to share a truth, or at least a truth as the writer sees it. To not just share it, but to spread it and to cause change to happen. You can do that in at least three ways: with research (your own or reporting on others), by building and describing conceptual structures, or with stories that resonate.
Quotes to Explore
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It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.
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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
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The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.
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I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.
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Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
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Discussion is just a tool. You have to aim; the final goal must be a decision.
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More than anything, falling in love causes a certain female thing in a man to manifest, oddly enough.
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We must improvise, and we must experiment, and we must do things that might go wrong, and everything we bring - the people and the equipment - must serve us in that goal.
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Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.
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I played a lot of football, and I was a goalkeeper, but I didn't really like playing in goal.
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We are not going to build a pressure in Mexico. We're not building walls to retain our people.
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I would have changed my last name if being famous were my goal.
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I was among one of the first entrepreneurs to start building their own private enterprise when Perestroika began in Russia and the state initiated its first market-oriented reforms.
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In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.
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My main goal is to become the most successful weightlifter in history.
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We are all human beings, and we all have insecurities, but it's about being healthy and happy with yourself. I'm not perfect, and I will indulge in pizza and sweets on occasion. The goal is to make the majority of your decisions good for your body. So listen to your body, and treat it like your temple.
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So I will be on the mountain waiting Cause I am in need of more attention
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...it's the same with business. If you focus on the goal and not the process, you inevitably compromise. Businessmen who focus on profits wind up in the hole. For me, profit is what happens when you do everything else right.
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Gossip harms relationships and that's why it's bad. While we all do it at times, there's a point where it crosses the line and becomes bullying if it damages friendships and causes people to dislike someone.
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This cool, dry weather is ideal for the apple crop. The cooler mornings and evenings are perfect for sweetening 'em up.
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The key to the understanding of the character of the conscious lies in the region of the unconscious.
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Stay strong. Stay true to yourself and to who you are because there is community out there. It may not be in your town or perhaps even in your family, but you are wanted and you are loved and there are places in the world where you will be safe and supported.
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The goal in blogging/ business/ inspiring non-fiction is to share a truth, or at least a truth as the writer sees it. To not just share it, but to spread it and to cause change to happen. You can do that in at least three ways: with research (your own or reporting on others), by building and describing conceptual structures, or with stories that resonate.
