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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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.
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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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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.'
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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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He was as fresh as is the month of May.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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Your future is ahead of you. Imagine the notion of the past fifteen years of your life being a blip in your story.
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I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.
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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.
