Seth Godin Quotes
Take the long way. Do the hard work, consistently and with generosity and transparency. And then you won't waste time doing it over.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.
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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
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Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
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I've done a lot of plays before where I had to do a New York accent, but never a Philly one before. They do the rhotic 'r' - where you say the 'r' - where most New Yorkers don't.
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I don't want to be away from wrestling even a little.
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I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
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About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before.
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The Tea Party did not run me out. If you know me and my personality, I would welcome the challenge.
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I wasn't that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my father was for a long time the president of the Board of Education. That was always a hard note to bring home.
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Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care.
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I don't know if I've ever met anyone that's purely good or purely evil myself. I think most of us live with some varying degrees between the two.
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And because no one who works full-time in America should have to live in poverty, I am going to keep making the case that we need to raise the minimum wage because it's lower right now than it was when Ronald Reagan took office. It's time for the minimum wage to go up.
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Happy will they be who lend ear to the words of the Dead.
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Each track has to be precise, and that is a problem on a rhythmically complex track like 'Slaughtered.'
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When I was young, we didn't have indie games. We had 'garage developers' or similar terms, who were just small teams making games out of passion.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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All hope is prayer; who calls it hope no more, Sends prayer footsore forth over weary wastes, While he who calls it prayer, gives wings to hope.
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Among so many things, 'Time Passes' has shown me subversive ways of portraying time, of looking away from the human to the far more terrifying, far more immense texture of time beneath the minute span of a human life.
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No man (sic) has learned to live until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. Length without breadth is like a self-contained tributary having no outward flow to the ocean. Stagnant, still and stale, it lacks both life and freshness. In order to live creatively and meaningfully, our self-concern must be wedded to other concerns.
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Take the long way. Do the hard work, consistently and with generosity and transparency. And then you won't waste time doing it over.
