Seth Godin Quotes
How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?
Quotes to Explore
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I think there's a very fine line. I listen to their advice. I take their medical expertise very seriously. But then I also, the reason I am where I am, the reason I play the way I play, is because I push beyond normal.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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I'm not a babysitter.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
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The brain, which is plastic when young, must be exposed to certain sights early in life, or it will remain blind to those sights forever.
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The trend in entrepreneurship is up, but an entrepreneur's ability to hire is down.
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The mind is just another muscle.
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I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.
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Christianity, as it had played out over the past two millennia, meant power disguised as principle, guilt imposed on the susceptible, irrationality run amok, and the suppression of free inquiry. It meant hypocrisy and self-righteousness, dogmatism, and superstition. It meant monks flogging themselves and soldiers wearing crosses and the auto-da-fe of the Inquisition.
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I'm so used to changing time zones that I can sleep at any time. I'm rarely ever tossing and turning - if I am, it's really a big deal.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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Once again I stopped listening to the news this week.
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How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?
