Seth Godin Quotes
Success brings with it the fear of blowing it. With more to lose, there's more pressure not to lose it.
Quotes to Explore
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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
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The victor belongs to the spoils.
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.
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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
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The competitive nature of most mums and dads is astounding. The fear they instil in our promising but sensitive Johnny is utterly depressing. We need a parental cultural revolution.
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My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.
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I don't fear anything now.
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Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
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I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.
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Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
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'Argo' was a great script from day one. I don't think we knew that it was going to be such a success.
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Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
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Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.
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I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it once it gets going. I used to find it hard to start. Fear of the blank page. The first thing you write down won't bear any relation to what's in your head and that's always disappointing.
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Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
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Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.
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She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
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You have to capitalise on any success you have and keep doing what you do as well as you can. But how do you define success? In my book, it's to be playing those parts you saw your idols - Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Helen Mirren, Vanessa Redgrave - playing when they were the age you are now.
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The key is to vote because we need a vote to put the people in power that we want to represent us.
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The curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.
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Being an individual takes effort. Most people are pretty lazy. And that's OK! I mean, there are more important things than fashion. If it's going to stress you out to have a sense of style, don't do it. The important thing is to be comfortable so you can get on with your life.
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A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.
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Success brings with it the fear of blowing it. With more to lose, there's more pressure not to lose it.
