Seth Godin Quotes
If you demand that everything that happens be something you are adequately prepared for, I wonder if you’ve chosen never to leap in ways that we need you to leap. Once we embrace this chasm, then for the things for which we can never be prepared, we are of course, always prepared.
Quotes to Explore
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I think I have lived in every part of L.A. except downtown. Everywhere from Topanga Canyon to Toluca Lake.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more horrific because they've had the release of the laugh before it.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
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For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
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It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.
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The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
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I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.
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There was a dodgy digital period when things didn't sound that great, but now we are figuring that out. The basics haven't changed, which is talented human beings playing together in a room.
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'I think, George,' says Merion, ' the trouble is that you don't have a conflict model of society.'
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Later I became very involved in writing. I really enjoyed that moment of writing. People would pass around my sentences. That was a feeling I never had before. It was like a bullet out of the gun.
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Augustine's description of Ambrose's silent reading (including the remark that he never read aloud) is the first definite instance recorded in Western literature.
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The true - the true economy has got to come back into balance with the very biosphere that sustains us. And I think a lot of people just see the green economy as a different way of allowing the corporate agenda to continue to flourish.
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In L.A., it's not on the surface. Everything is in the cracks. The restaurant out front will look like this old, boring place, and you'll go inside, and it's this lush, beautifully designed restaurant.
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When in times of turmoil and breakup, do not cut or shave your head, because it will never end well.
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When you're a writer, everything that interests you feeds into your work.
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America has always had tinkerers, including just about any teenager who ever hot-rodded a Camaro.
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There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away.
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The team with the best players wins.
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He appeared to enjoy beyond everything the sound of his own voice. I couldn't wonder at that, for it was mellow and full and gave great importance to every word he uttered. He listened to himself with obvious satisfaction and sometimes gently beat time to his own music with his head or rounded a sentence with his hand.
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She had a sad face, yet she was evidently efficient. The combination used to make Mrs. Wilkins wonder, for she had been told by Mellersh, on days when she had only been able to get plaice, that if one were efficient one wouldn’t be depressed, and that if one does one’s job well one becomes automatically bright and brisk.
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If you demand that everything that happens be something you are adequately prepared for, I wonder if you’ve chosen never to leap in ways that we need you to leap. Once we embrace this chasm, then for the things for which we can never be prepared, we are of course, always prepared.
