Seth Godin Quotes
What I learned: Shun nonbelievers. Ignore critics. Do your best for people who want to dance with you.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual', but bi-curious? Yea.
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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start killing people in a square somewhere, but right now, I just feel happy to be alive.
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The first presidential election I really paid attention to was in 1988 when George H. W. Bush ran against Michael Dukakis.
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I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
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The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.
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I think having children is the most amazing thing.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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You don't want people rooting for anything other than the team that they love and the players that they think the world of to win. We don't want there to be another agenda.
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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
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When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
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At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.
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I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.
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Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan.
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Without doubt, the most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people.
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When I was a little kid wanting to play music, it was because of people like Pete Johnson, Huey Smith, Allen Toussaint, Professor Longhair, James Booker, Art Neville ... there was so many piano players I loved in New Orleans. Then there was guys from out of town that would come cut there a lot. There was so many great bebop piano players, so many great jazz piano players, so many great Latin piano players, so many great blues piano players. Some of those Afro-Cuban bands had some killer piano players. There was so many different things going on musically, and it was all of interest to me.
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I recommend people develop a fear of elevators, like I have. Even if something is on the tenth floor, I'm walking up. If you don't have claustrophobia, pretend you do and take the stairs everywhere! It ends up being so healthy!
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It is undeniable that a woman's ability to stretch and pursue her total competence outside the home and get paid what she's worth for it makes for happier and more fulfilled women.
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What I learned: Shun nonbelievers. Ignore critics. Do your best for people who want to dance with you.
