Seth Godin Quotes
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I didn't know I wanted to act until it was around 21. I had just come back to Los Angeles after two and half years of traveling and working as a dancer and singer and was looking for a new performing art to study. I started taking acting classes and fell in love.
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I became conflicted in my late teens.
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Acting is such a crazy industry, but kite boarding keeps me grounded.
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We have most of the software industry running Autonomy.
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I used to feel it was too late for me; I'd had my shot. You couldn't make a pop star out of me.
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The news comes somewhat late, but I'm glad to hear it nevertheless.
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I have a study now - I used not to. I also love working in cafes; ignoring noise is good for concentration.
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A 2014 study commissioned by Facebook and done by Deloitte suggests that Facebook alone contributes almost $150 billion directly to the global economy, and when you add the peripherals, it nears $227 billion.
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All basic scientists who look to the NCI for funding should know that I will tolerate no retreat on the study of model systems and the pursuit of fundamental biological principles.
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With but a few exceptions, we don't have this personal study under masters any more. Craftsmanship has sunk very low. We no longer have any universally creative persons who are able to guide young learners not only in technical matters but also, at the same time, in a formal way.
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My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.
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I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.
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I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.
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Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.
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The question I propose to consider is in what way one may justify the study of English on cultural and disciplinary, and not merely on sentimental or utilitarian, grounds. My own conviction is that if English is to be thus justified it must be primarily by what I am terming the discipline of ideas.
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Every great study is not only an end in itself, but also a means of creating and sustaining a lofty habit of mind.
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The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.
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I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
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I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.
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I had a couple of friends, but I was mostly the kid with his nose in a book.
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People prefer to believe what they want to be true.
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People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
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When I started training to fight, it was more out of boredom than anything. I was looking for more things to do. I started with boxing, and my coaches told me I had a lot of potential and that I should consider making it a career. I was like, 'Whatever.' I was just 15 at the time, and I never imagined something like that.
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By the time there is a case study about your industry, you are already too late.
