Seth Godin Quotes
The secret of getting on the shortlist is doing your best work fearlessly for a long time before you get on the list.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm the lightest sleeper. I can hear a pin drop. It's been worse since I was ill. I think your inner ear is always half open, listening out for the faintest danger sign.
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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I'm a horrible perfectionist and very highly strung. That's why I do yoga: to unwind.
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I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn't coming back.' They started throwing Bibles.
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I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.
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Well, I think it can be quite helpful to be working on a character who actually existed, historically. Of course, you might have material to study and help you create the character.
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does you costume involve leather?" she'd asked. and he'd said, "Actually, yeah, it might." it really did. it involved a leather dog collar, leather pants and a leash, and the leash was held by Ysandre, who was in skintight red rubber, from neck to knee high boots. she'd topped it off with a pair of devil horns and a red tridant. she'd made Shane her dog, complete with furry dog mask. ***"Breathe," Myrnin said. "I'm not much for it myself, but i hear it's quite good for humans."***
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As we enter our centennial year we are still a young nation, very much in the formative stages. Our national condition is still flexible enough that we can make almost anything we wish of our nation. No other country is in a better position than Canada to go ahead with the evolution of a national purpose devoted to all that is good and noble and excellent in the human spirit.
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I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.
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Where there is yoga,
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We were just at the beginnings of a recovery [in 2010]. And the, you know, whoever is president at that point is gonna get hit and his party's gonna get hit. That then means that suddenly you've got a redistricting in which a lot of state legislatures are now Republican. They draw lines that give a huge structural advantage in subsequent elections.
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People seldom recognize opportunity for it comes disguised as hard work.
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We do not support an automatic pathway to citizenship.
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I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most replenishing.
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In Montana, a math teacher is running for the Senate. Win or lose, she plans on demanding a recount because math is fun.
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The language of salesmanship was no doubt born with the first fashions in fig leaves in the garden of Eden. A strange concept has grown around it: if something is to be sold, inaccuracy is not immoral. Hence the art of advertisement - untruthfulness combined with repetition.
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God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.
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In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface.
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Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.
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The secret of getting on the shortlist is doing your best work fearlessly for a long time before you get on the list.
