Seth Godin Quotes
If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.
Quotes to Explore
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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I don't know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
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Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.
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The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.
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If you want to humble an empire, it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe.
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Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.
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The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
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Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old.
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I enjoy the hunt much more than the 'good life' after the victory.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Every season I am inspired by women.
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Every fool knoweth that hatreds are the cinders of affection.
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Tranquilizer in tha trunk put yo ass to sleep man, Birdman Junior got the world in my wingspan.
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If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.
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Surf is something I have been obsessed with since I was a child.
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If there is some art involved, Id like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work.
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And when you get an eminent journal like Time magazine complaining, as it often has, that to the young writers of today life seems short on rewards and that what they write is a product of their own neuroses, in its silly way the magazine is merely stating the status quo and obvious truth. The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.
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Having a daughter has reawakened my sense of feminism. I want to protect her.
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If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.
