Seth Godin Quotes
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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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A mom can't afford to be sick.
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Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.
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All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.
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I believe that it's better to have a conviction, believe strongly in something, and then the convictions create a style that reflects your mentality.
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There is no better way to bring people together than with desserts.
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I take my work seriously, but I don't necessarily take myself seriously.
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Bullies always have another target.
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Know that the tattoos are all significant. They're all extremely insignificant. I can't break each one down, but it's 20 years. The first one was 21 years of age from a football teammate.
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There's nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be.
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Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.
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You've done the bourgeois thing, perhaps, but let's not call that love.
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I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free from work, I tend to stay at home.
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Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife was a poet, Ira Pastan agreed to take me into his laboratory, despite my lack of scientific credentials.
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Both parties are so entrenched in their ideologies and a desire to score political points and hold on to power that we never seem to agree on a problem, much less find solutions.
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Without exception, empathy is always appropriate.
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You can be right or you can have empathy. You can't do both.
