Seth Godin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
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As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.
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Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure, the search would never have begun.
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To give something for nothing is to weaken the giver.
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The situation is perilous, but there is still one chance of escape.
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That's precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? - Why not you, why not now.
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My job never actually leaves me. I watch people who come home from work at six and they're done, and that seems crazy. Then again, they have to get up at seven and go to work, to a job that maybe they don't really care about, and I get to do something that I care about.
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In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film.
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We talk about the past like it's the strangest dream. Then we repeat the things we never dreamed we'd do.
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There are probably more internet hate sites about me than Charles Manson.
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I think that Malcolm X was the most remarkable historical figure produced by Black America in the 20th century.
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I'm not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I've flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs.
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Generally speaking, experience counts for something. So you'd expect entrepreneurs who've been through the ups and downs of a tech startup to have an advantage over the newcomers. Or at least have an equal chance at success. But in fact the opposite may be true. A number of venture capitalists I've spoken with have said that too many "old guard" entrepreneurs are not being bold enough in their business decisions, and it's hurting their startups.
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I've been working a lot on my lateral movement, and angles - it's coming natural to me now - and on different techniques, keeping my hands right.
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Not only are bloggers suckers for the remarkable, so are the people who read blogs.
