Seth Godin Quotes
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The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill.
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I'm not a wimpy kid at all. I don't care what other people think - I only care what I think about myself.
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Humility is an attribute of every good Hindu.
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Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
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We watch so much film, calling up pitch by pitch, count by count in order to spot tendencies. Technology is a big part of how I get ready for a game. What's funny is a lot of the NFL guys say they study the 'Madden' game; that's how they learn to read offenses and defenses.
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My childhood dream was to study mechanical engineering. After reading 'The Mysterious Island' - which I read 25 times as a boy - I thought that was the best thing a person could do. The engineer in the book knows mechanics and physics, and he creates a whole way of life on the island out of nothing. I wanted to be like that.
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Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.
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I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.
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The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
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Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new, active, and immediate.
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Pero la vida es corta:viviendo, todo falta;muriendo, todo sobra.
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I'd been DJ-ing in these clubs in N.Y. and I hated everything that was coming out. So I decided I would make it myself. People were making mash-ups or remixes, but I was extra bored, so I actually started remaking these records from scratch.
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Flash photography can be horrible. In the hands of an expert who knows how to bounce all that searing bright light in the right direction, it may make an impossible picture workable.
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It is funny to me that because I can run, because I'm athletic, people tend to see that as my only asset.
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I love nerds. Comic-Con junkies are the tastemakers of tomorrow. Isn't that funny? The tables have turned.
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The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
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I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.
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How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?
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Every time you're out there at this place, you're always learning. Obviously, we want to be on top of the charts, but right now you need to be smart, take advantage of this day and put it in your pocket.
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I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design.
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Design is the last great competitive advantage.
