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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The slower but consistent tortoise causes less waste and is more desirable than the speedy hare that races ahead and then stops occasionally to doze. The Toyota Production System can be realized only when all the workers become tortoises.
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I grew up in a semi-attached row house in Queens in New York. And my family and my grandparents and my father's from Brooklyn, and so you're essentially an outer boroughs kid, you're growing up.
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Parents have got to chill out. Let your kid eat dirt - they're gonna be fine!
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A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.
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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.
