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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Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.
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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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The more I learn about things, I realise how wrong I was before.
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There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions.
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The successful man or woman always looks for the advantage or benefit in every situation and lo and behold, they always find it.
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Men keep their agreements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them; and I shall so frame my laws that it will be evident to the Athenians that it will be for their interest to observe them.
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Design is the last great competitive advantage.
