Seth Godin Quotes
It might be bold to put your work into the world unadorned, but it's probably ineffective.
Quotes to Explore
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The connection I make with being young and growing up is, like, the feeling of not being crushed by the world. Having an idea, thinking you can do it.
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The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time.
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Do not hide behind utopian logic which says that until we have the perfect security environment, nuclear disarmament cannot proceed. This is old-think. This is the mentality of the Cold War era. We must face the realities of the 21st century. The Conference on Disarmament can be a driving force for building a safer world and a better future.
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When you scratch the surface, every one of us has something that we deeply want to contribute to the world. All we have to do is step up and do it.
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The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.
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In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.
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The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
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Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.
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Who is that person that comes around and says, 'You are OK, you are worthy, you are special?' That makes all the difference in the world for many of us. Those are the people we appreciate the most.
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California is responsible for selling, trading and distributing large amounts of shark fins that come from all over the world.
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You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.
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Although more than 500 million maritime containers move around the world each year, accounting for 90 per cent of international trade, only 2 per cent are inspected. Strengthening customs and immigration systems is essential.
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Women in America will have to find an answer for the pressures of work and family, but if you really care about women's issues you have to think about women in the world, especially Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
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However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What I think about is trying to make my work pure, and if it is pure then it can be accessible. It is quite straight forward really.
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There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.
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Of course, I should have done what doctors said and walked for miles every day and not eaten great amounts of butter. But then, life is life, and if we all did what they said we should do, it would be a different world.
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Rome is possibly my favorite city in the world. I have such fond memories there - most of them food related.
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I decided I would go to NYU so I could get into the comedy world and have legit housing, and my parents would not have trusted investing in a straight-up comedy career.
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I still carry the marks on my body of what those 'German supermen' did to me then. I was sentenced to death.
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At my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard.
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But it doesn't matter what you're doing, it matters how you're doing it.
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I was drawn to his aloofness, the way cats gravitate toward people who’d rather avoid them.
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When I was younger, I enjoyed being strong, and I loved it when my heart was very strong, but I think it was also about submitting to the cultural idea that if you're a 22-year-old woman, you have to look a certain way. I'm not into that anymore. But I do appreciate it when my clothes fit.
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It might be bold to put your work into the world unadorned, but it's probably ineffective.
