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.

Seth Godin

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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.

  

  Carl Sandburg
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• The relationship with time changes when you're captive.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
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• The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not prepared?' I just don't feel that way anymore. I feel like the best is yet to come.

  

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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.

  

  Karl Malone
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  • Time
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• I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.

  

  Natalie Cole
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• I'm a pretty plain-spoken guy.

  

  Larry Hogan
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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.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Love
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• I don't like having to be pushed into a box.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
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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.

  

  Valerie Plame
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• My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me, 'No, it's like this.'

  

  Action Bronson
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• I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Goal
  • Appreciation
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• I was a naughty kid. Teachers did not like me much.

  

  Kapil Dev
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• I think feeling bitter or angry is really useless.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Think
  • Feeling
  • Angry

• Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Should
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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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• All I want to do is change the world.

  

  W. Clement Stone
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• What's important for me is to find the right kind of girls who express a vision of a woman. We like girls who look smart and intelligent with natural beauty - a certain quality of skin and hair. And she doesn't look exactly like a model.

  

  Christophe Lemaitre
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  • Smart
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• I fell in love with electronics, which for me was the terra incognita, because I had never heard such sounds. If you'd asked me 50 years ago, I would have said the future of music is only electronic, but I would have been wrong. I learnt how to produce everything I needed with live instrumentalists, so I don't need electronics.

  

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• I've never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • True
  • Creativity
  • Results

• I hope it doesn't happen again that it gets out of hand, but yes, it is something to think about. We have to come out and get it done.

  

  Bob Wickman
  • Hands
  • I Hope
  • Come Out

• 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.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Future
  • Hands
  • Results