Seth Godin Quotes
A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
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While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.
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When I die, I hope they don't cremate me 'cuz I'll burn forever.
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Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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It is users that are driving the networks with innovations on top of the networks and with innovations in the devices space. This is very healthy.
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Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.
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Having children is not for everyone, but I think it's a beautiful lesson in it not being all about me anymore. It's a relief, in a way. It's like, this is her story now, and I'm her mom. It's a nice shift.
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I went to Harvard College and determined right away when I was a junior that I was unemployable, since I think I applied to 300 jobs and didn't get any of them, so I decided that I would stay in school and go to Harvard Business school, and that's my background.
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God is everywhere.
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Tolerance is you saying something crazy and me smiling and saying, 'That's nice.'
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Music is like making love: either all or nothing.
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Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro enough to be different, there is sufficient matter to furnish a black artist with a lifetime of creative work.
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The terms of copyright last far too long: either the life of the author plus 70 years after death for a personal work or 95 years for a corporate work. That length doesn't encourage more authorship - it merely limits the speakers who could share powerful speeches, books, and films.
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A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.
