Seth Godin Quotes
Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness and the scientific method, on the other hand, create a culture of testing and inquiry that can't help but push you forward.
Quotes to Explore
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The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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Sometimes, it's just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.
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A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
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I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.
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Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.
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There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than in our own.
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Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.
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My mother has a tremendous amount of pride and self-respect. She won't take assistance from anybody.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness and the scientific method, on the other hand, create a culture of testing and inquiry that can't help but push you forward.
