Seth Godin Quotes
Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek.
Quotes to Explore
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
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I am not ashamed of anything - not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.
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Aereo is the first potentially transformative technology that has the chance to give people access to broadcast television delivered over the Internet to any device, large or small, they desire. No wires, no new boxes or remotes, portable everywhere there's an Internet connection in the world - truly a revolutionary product.
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When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
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When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist because you've crushed anyone's desire to do the right thing with all these incentives.
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What drives that desire to destroy Paris Hilton? What drives that desire to venerate Angelina Jolie? I do understand it, but it still baffles me. It baffles me when people treat me specially and differently, because I just want to look at them and go, 'What are you talking about? I'm just a person.'
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I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
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Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest.
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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
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Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.
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I think the Aussieness got beaten out of me back in the States.
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Being a dad is like - there's nothing more important. So the exploration of that in stories, with parents and fathers and brothers, siblings, I just think that you're always in the terrain of love, whether it's absence of love or the giving of love or the desire for love.
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I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.
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I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.
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I like to make music because it's fun to do and it makes me feel good, but I have no desire to be a huge pop singer or anything like that. I just like to make it.
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I rather disdained than coveted the luxuries I saw : alas ! we desire riches more for others than ourselves.
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The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.
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Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires.
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Righteousness exalteth a nation.
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I'm into exploring the fringes of a culture.
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Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek.
