Seth Godin Quotes
It's far easier to put your future into someone else's hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go.
Quotes to Explore
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We all have these challenges and stereotypes that exist, but you can't let that hold you down... If that's the first thing you think about as a black woman - the challenge that lies ahead - you are thinking in the wrong direction, in my opinion.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom.
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There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
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The relationship with time changes when you're captive.
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My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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I'm a pretty plain-spoken guy.
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What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.
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I don't like having to be pushed into a box.
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There's no way you can possibly intellectually justify, 'Well, it's okay for the Western Judeo-Christian countries to have nuclear weapons, but not for a country like Iran.' That logic goes nowhere fast.
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I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.
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I was a naughty kid. Teachers did not like me much.
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I think feeling bitter or angry is really useless.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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I've got a song on every album, two songs as a matter of fact on every album without Auto-Tune, and that's the song that nobody talks about. It's weird.
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We shifted our philosophy from being a computer mapping group that would support planners to the idea of building actual software that would be well engineered. Because at that time, our software was not well-engineered at all; it was basically built with project funding and for project work, largely by ourselves.
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I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace.
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That was one of the great successes of removing Saddam Hussein, as we took Iraq out of the picture of having a sovereign nation from which the terrorists could operate. But this war has not gone perfectly.
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What is an intellectual? In general, someone seriously devoted to what used to be called the “life of the mind”: thinking pursued not instrumentally, for the sake of practical goals, but simply for the sake of knowing and understanding.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for.
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If the game is run properly as a professional game, you do not need 57 old farts running rugby.
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It's far easier to put your future into someone else's hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go.
