Seth Godin Quotes
Part of leadership (a big part of it actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time.
Quotes to Explore
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we have to get to know ourselves better.
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People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.
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Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
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My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.
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I'm not musical myself.
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The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
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Whatever doubts or vexations one has in Japan, it is only necessary to ask one's self: 'Well, who are the best people to live with?'
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Whoever heard me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and tricks there five hundred years ago will think whatever he likes of me, but it is a stranger form of madness to imagine that the present-day cat is fundamentally an entirely different one.
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You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the truth. The idea of being a troubadour on the road singing for your supper was very disturbing to him.
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Being an actor, in and of itself, is just hard. You have to just do it for its own sake.
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When I have meetings scheduled so tight that I can't go to the loo, that's where I draw the line!
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Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what you're doing.
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It would be great if you could cool the water and immobilise the molecules, though keeping the structure, because when it's frozen, when it's immobilised, you can have it in the electron microscope and the water will not evaporate because in the electron microscope, it must be under vacuum, and water at normal temperature evaporates.
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Basic fact of life: no matter how far you run, you always take yourself with you.
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If I speak with a character’s voice it is because that character’s become so much part of me that … I think I have the right then to imagine myself into the skin, into the life, into the dreams, into the experience of the particular character that I’ve chosen.
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Part of leadership (a big part of it actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time.
