Seth Godin Quotes
Art is when we do work that matters in a creative way, in a way that touches (people) and changes them for the better.
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that.
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One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.
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I want to cause a change with my life, make the world a little better.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.
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Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.
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The sheriff is at the cash register, and if I don't get a hit soon, I don't know what I'll do.
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I've been engaged a couple times.
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Just as physical exercise is a well-known and well-accepted means to improve health for anyone, regardless of age or background, so can the brain be put 'into shape' for optimal learning.
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I always try to live in the moment.
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'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book.
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Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.
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It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist!
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A winner never whines.
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Dave Duerson had classic pathology of CTE and no evidence of any other disease.
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People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
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During the Cold War, the United States took its friends where it found them. If they were willing to cast their lot with us, from the Shah to Gen. Pinochet, we welcomed them. Democratic dissidents like Jawaharlal Nehru in India and Olof Palme in Sweden got the back of our hand.
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I invite her back to my apartment, or as I call it, the 'Death Star.' I'm still working on it, it's not completely operational.
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Art is when we do work that matters in a creative way, in a way that touches (people) and changes them for the better.
