Seth Godin Quotes
Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.
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People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
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We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.
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I like a little bit of a rough look because it's sexy. But when a man has a rough look, and he goes and gets a cleanup, then it's very sexy as well.
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I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I think there's a way of doing it that has a lot of merit.
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I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!
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Fashion is never in crisis because clothes are always necessary.
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Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
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Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.
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We don't want to give a business that is not going to come through the troubled waters a loan that they can't pay back.
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There are only two real ways to get ahead today - sell liquor or drink it.
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My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'
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What free-market economists are not telling us is that the politics they want to get rid of are none other than those of democracy itself. When they say we need to insulate economic policies from politics, they are in effect advocating the castration of democracy.
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Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?
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I am quite handy; not to sound bragadocious, but I've been working with wood and building things my entire life. I used to be a skateboarder and built ramps with my father. Then, the first two years I lived in Los Angeles, I worked as a carpenter building sets.
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You have to pretend you're 100 percent sure. You have to take action; you can't hesitate or hedge your bets. Anything less will condemn your efforts to failure.
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You know, you don't have to have money to be a successful businessperson. You don't need a college degree. You just need a lot of common sense backed up by a willingness to work hard.
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At Camellia Network, we believe if we can create a way of identifying every young person aging out of foster care, defining what they need, and giving a community of supporters a simple and clear way to fulfill those needs, we can produce radically improved outcomes for youth.
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The problem is that because the voucher wouldn't necessarily keep up with health care inflation, it was estimated that this would cost the average senior about $6,000 a year.
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If you can change things, change them, but don't waste time worrying about things you can't change.
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Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.