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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Every so often, I'll get an idea from a dream, but most of the time, ideas come to me while I'm toiling away at the keyboard just like every other writer.
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There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves.
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Sometimes art is just about getting a reaction, that's really the end-all be-all.
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Some people find that if they share a profession with their partner, they don't talk about anything else.
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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.
