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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Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.
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I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
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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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I spent a lot of time doing really unimportant work as an actor. It was important when I started writing that I obviously make it entertaining, or no one is going to go see it - but to really make you think, that is my goal.
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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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My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.
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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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Asked to give advice to a 13-year-old girl about how to lead her life, I say find something you love to do. The goal shouldn't be accumulating money. It might be making changes in the world, or in your country.
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In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.
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I like horror films and romance films. Films where you're going in being like, 'I'm coming here to be scared or to fall in love.' You have a goal.
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The UK now boasts the highest level of broadband availability in the G8. We are now building on those efforts in becoming the first operator in the UK to commit to a national service which is capable of broadband speeds of up to 8Mbps. Our approach in getting the most out of ADSL technology means we get higher speeds to a national footprint as quickly as possible, making sure the opportunities are not just restricted to urban centers or those providers which operate their own networks.
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It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into the sensations of the surroundings in order to then integrate this into a coherent painterly form.
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Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat.
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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.
