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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I watch 'Entourage.' I aspire the good life that they live and lead. Honestly, I am just trying to be me by trying to do good films, have fun at it and trying to work with good directors, and, of course, I am a bit of a silent party boy, also. I have my share of fun sometime, too.
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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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I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
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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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Despite the previous efforts of Congresses, our addiction to foreign oil, as the President stated, is greater today than ever before. That dependency is a threat to our national security, and we must address that threat.
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I love big budgeted, epic rock landscapes. That's what turns me on.
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I used to play video games all the time, but now I don't because I don't have an attention span.
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I am always a sucker for the underdogs. I love Batman and Superman, but when it comes to the guys who don't stand in the front of the line, Aquaman is one of the key guys for me. He's so much fun to work on.
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These types of events are Israel’s nightmare, not because they are violent, but precisely because they are not.
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A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.
