Seth Godin Quotes
My best advice: win little battles. Get in the habit of winning, of shipping, of having customers that can't live without you. Once you've demonstrated you know how to do the art, then go after the windmills.
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I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
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I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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My dad grew up wrestling. He knew Ken Shamrock, and I didn't know who he was at the time. So, he found out that Shamrock was in a gym in Reno, and he wanted me to go try a class with him. I tried it and fell in love the first day. Ken told me that I had potential in this sport, and he's the reason I kept at it.
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I've never been on a television show as a regular before.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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I don't worry about whether I'm making a masterpiece, because I know that if you get just one of those in a lifetime, you should get down on your knees and say 'Thank you!'
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I've had confidence in myself all along. It was just a matter of getting the pieces back in place.
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I drive a Yukon Flex Fuel, and there's baby seats in the back.
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Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.
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My friends, who sleep for all eternity; we do not forget you.
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The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson.
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Some of the kids in school used to call my father a fake or a phony. That kind of thing brought on a few fights.
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I have written for, very fortunately, some great singers from Frank Sinatra to Elvis Presley.
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I'm not gonna ruin my reputation with the blacks no more.
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International cooperation is vital to keeping our globe safe, commerce flowing, and our planet habitable.
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Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction.
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Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way.
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The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I'd never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shocked at how current it was.
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I attended the climate talks in Copenhagen in 2009, and back then, national governments waited until days before to submit climate plans, and the U.S. based its pledge on a proposed bill that would fail in the Senate.
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The kinds of things that poetry can offer are timeless - mainly the kind of compression it offers of powerful language, powerful feelings and images, and, you know, the inner experience becoming outer.
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My best advice: win little battles. Get in the habit of winning, of shipping, of having customers that can't live without you. Once you've demonstrated you know how to do the art, then go after the windmills.
