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'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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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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I strongly believe that the Legislature should not be interfering in private medical decisions.
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I get most of my inspiration from older records and older production styles, and that ends up rearing its head in the records that I make.
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We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.
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I'm not totally sure what I want to be doing, but it's so fun to be on 'SNL' because you get exposed to so many different people and so many different experiences. It's a cool, lucky way to break into the business.
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Everybody made mistakes for years, but by making them, everybody learned - myself, the franchise, coaches, players, LeBron, everybody.
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Let me tell you - when I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble. You don't think about breaking records anymore, you don't think about gaining scientific data - the only thing that you want is to come back alive.
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Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.
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There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent. Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.
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I like to think Portland and L.A. are not rivals; they're cousins. As cities on the West Coast, they're distinct in their own way but still culturally similar.
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I think I'd make a good James Bond... I'm joking.
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If someone tells you that you aren't good enough, that's their problem, not yours.
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What I learned: Shun nonbelievers. Ignore critics. Do your best for people who want to dance with you.
