Seth Godin Quotes
Your biggest failure is the thing you dreamed of contributing but didn't find the guts to do.
Quotes to Explore
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To be vulnerable, to be raw, to virtually expose your guts, I like doing that.
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I'm in the collard green 6 cornbread in the guts Got the Halloween kicks trick or treat in the clutch
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The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'
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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.
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I hate flying, flat out hate its guts.
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All good writers inspire me as I have never thought I was any good. As far as a writer who made me think I could do it, it was Henry Miller. Not because I thought he was so simple that I reckoned I could pull it off as well, but it was his freedom and guts that really moved me to want to write all the time.
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If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read Satori in Paris lately? But if I had never read Jack Kerouac's horrendous poems, I never would have had the guts to write horrendous poems myself. I never would have signed up for Mrs. Safford's poetry class the spring of junior year, which led me to poetry readings, which introduced me to bad red wine, and after that it's all just one big blurry condemned path to journalism and San Francisco.
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Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.
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If you speak up online and your ideas have currency, people are going to show up and want to connect with you. What we need more of are people with the guts and emotional labour to do this. The greatest shortage in today's society is an instinct to produce.
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There were cool bug spider monsters and fire and blood and guts - what's not to like?
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The act of contributing to the lives of others is its own reward. A servant's heart is a greater motivator than financial gain.
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It was an important time of the game and to be contributing in that way it would have made me feel good even if I was scoring runs. It was a great relief. Hopefully, I can draw some confidence from my bowling and flow through to my batting here.
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Guts are important. Your guts are what digest things. But it is your brains that tell you which things to swallow and which not to swallow.
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He did a hell of a job. That's what happens when you have heart and guts.
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Military operations cannot be tidy or free of friction - particularly in a coalition whose contributing nations see the campaign through national prisms.
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NELL. Because that's what an employer is going to have doubts about with a lady as I needn't tell you, whether she's got the guts to push through to a closing situation. They think we're too nice. They think we listen to the buyer's doubts. They think we consider his needs and his feelings.
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The most important talent for a shinobi is not the numberof jutsu. The important thing is... HAVING THE GUTS TO NEVER GIVE UP.
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Above everything else I've done, I've always said I've had more guts than I've got talent.
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I maintain that the maxim is still to be faster than the others.
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I'm going to come back to West Virginia when this is over. There's something ancient and deeply-rooted in my soul. I like to think that I have left my ghost up one of those hollows, and I'll never really be able to leave for good until I find it. And I don't want to look for it, because I might find it and have to leave." - from a letter to his mother Helen Pancake that Breece wrote in Charlottesville, where he was studying writing.
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I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the presidency or on 9/11. You have to learn from the past but not be imprisoned by it. You need to take counsel of history but never be imprisoned by it.
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This seclusion of the artist with his work, sometimes misconceived as a selfish thing, is in truth as needful a tool as any, if a vision is to be made clear to others. And all the men I have known do creative work obtained it; either mechanically, by the walls of a workroom, or by that withdrawal into themselves which is part of their power.
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Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.
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Your biggest failure is the thing you dreamed of contributing but didn't find the guts to do.
