Seth Godin Quotes
Organizations grow when they persuade a tiny cadre to be passionate, not when they touch millions with a mediocre message
Quotes to Explore
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Everybody loves a villain - let's face it.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
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I constantly write about my safety walking to and from school, and then I would come home at night, and I would cut on the TV, and I would watch a show like 'The Wonder Years,' or I would watch, you know, some other show like 'Family Ties.'
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I always direct next to the camera and watch my actors, and so you can see the small things that you can't see on the small screen but you can definitely see on the big screen.
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Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
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If a child wants to read 'Twilight' over Middlemarch, they should be encouraged - the important thing is to get them reading in the first place.
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The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.
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I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
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I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely self-conscious, and I think writing was a way of withdrawing into my own imagination.
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I tend to mean what I say: in life, generally; in recipes, certainly.
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I can't think of anything that's as exciting as I'm sure this mission will be, and actually being in space. But, we did some training as a crew together.
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The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government.
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Feeding our energy appetite is top of mind for many people these days.
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I realized immediately that this was a terribly important discovery, but I didn't realize how important it would be until we had spent a lot of time in the laboratory studying it.
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A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.
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Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.
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Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.
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The ideal being? An angel ravaged by humor.
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Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
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In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.
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I'm afraid of peacocks.
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Organizations grow when they persuade a tiny cadre to be passionate, not when they touch millions with a mediocre message
