Seth Godin Quotes
If you hear my idea but don't believe it, that's not your fault; it's mine. If you see my new product but don't buy it, that's my failure, not yours. If you attend my presentation and you're bored, that's my fault too.
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I never feel with the fashion stuff that it's too fake. If I was a model and had a working part in Fashion Week, then I might feel like that, but I'm just a visitor. I really only walk in and watch the shows and think, 'Maybe I could wear that in a video.' I meet the designer, say hello, and then I go.
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I have an insatiable palate. I'll try anything once, with an open mind. However, there is a special place in my heart for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. Don't get me wrong, I've sampled specialty Mac & Cheese all over the world, but nothing competes with the stuff I grew up on.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.
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Forty-five years ago, when I was 18, I came to San Francisco by boat and took two weeks to get here. I had a great impression. I think San Francisco is the welcoming gate for people from Asia.
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Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
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I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.
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Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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God is decisively drawn to the humble.
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I think when you're telling a story from inside of you that's genuine, people connect with it.
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So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.
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My favorite films left the camera rest, and the actors and characters have a stage to act. Move the camera when it's motivating.
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Every library answers a twofold need, which is often also a twofold obsession: that of conserving certain objects (books) and that of organizing them in certain ways
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Whenever I cook, I think of Spanish music, so I always have to listen to some sort of salsa. It gets your body going.
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Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
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If you hear my idea but don't believe it, that's not your fault; it's mine. If you see my new product but don't buy it, that's my failure, not yours. If you attend my presentation and you're bored, that's my fault too.
