Seth Godin Quotes
You dont need to convince everyone. All you need to do is motivate people who choose to follow you.
Quotes to Explore
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The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.
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You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.
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When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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I don't wear plaid shirts.
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I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.
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There are lots of reasons email persists, even as faster and simpler forms of communication proliferate and your personal communications likely have mostly migrated elsewhere. But one big one is that new types of media channels rarely totally kill off old ones, even though everyone predicts they will.
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To create a nice relationship with an ex, the love has to change form. I think you just have to put your children first.
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In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.
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The only two characters I can play convincingly are myself and a dumber and sweeter version of myself.
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I can get really nervous before a race. People will think this is mad, but sometimes I have got to the start line and thought, 'What if I can't do this?' But the minute I sit on the bike, I am like a different person.
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When you're young, you're stupid.
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It's awfully nice when people thank you for the pleasure and laughter you've brought to their lives.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?
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I think you have to be careful. You have to know exactly what is going to resonate with voters. And you can't get ahead of that. You have to be very careful with your approach.
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Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.
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'Habibi' is a complex and unapologetic work of fantasy - no idle undertaking for readers of any faith or no faith at all, but one well worth the trouble.
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When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who they are, and you care about them and theirs.
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No student should be forced to choose between following her faith and enjoying the benefits of a public education.
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'Harry Potter' opened so many doors for young adult literature. It really did convince the publishing industry that writing for children was a viable enterprise. And it also convinced a lot of people that kids will read if we give them books that they care about and love.
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There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
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My kids are so dramatically different, but it's not like I would trade one in or like there's one I would pick over the other ones. I know that sounds like I'm bullshitting. I also have five of them so I barely know them.
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You dont need to convince everyone. All you need to do is motivate people who choose to follow you.
