Seth Godin Quotes
The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else.
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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.
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I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
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Web GIS allows us to take our systems of record - our traditional server and desktop technologies - and integrate them, bringing them together into a system of systems.
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Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body.
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I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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Teams that play together beat those teams with superior players who play more as individuals.
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It's those moments when everything is on the line, and someone needs to show up in a big moment. I prepare my mind and I prepare my body to be ready for those moments. And I think it's just what I do. I live for those moments.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.
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When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.
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Could it think, the heart would stop beating.
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I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.
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Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
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I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about it all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night - and that went on for eight years.
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How many gifts and graces You have given me! How many favors You have fed me from your hand! I look for your love in all directions, then suddenly its blessing burns in me.
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Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.
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He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.
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The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else.
