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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Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.
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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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I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community.
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My favorite is doing the television show, as a variety show, every week. If the show wasn't that great one week, we could always come back and apologize, you know?
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Mort Meskin was a consummate professional, dedicated to his work. A great talent.
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Some people, they've had a lot of fun, even if it was dumb fun and a shitty body of work.
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A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.
