Seth Godin Quotes
No, the only way to know what people think is to watch what they do, not what they say. Do they come back for more? Do you cause them to change their behavior? Can you make them smile?
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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We human beings are humane in part because we can look beyond our biology.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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When we talk about music, we talk about our reaction to it. One person might say that music is so poetic, while another says it's all mathematics. Yet another might say it's about sensuality, and so on. That's all true. But music is not just one of these things. It's everything all at once.
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I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.
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Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
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When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is.
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If I had different parents who were in it for the money, I might have a different perspective. But they really are artists; they intelligently approach each character and prepare in every sense of the word. I grew up in a world that had great discipline.
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I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.
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The thing that sucks is that there's so much false data because people are in mystery as to what Scientology is, so they just kind of make up stuff.
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There's no people like show people.
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I moved to L.A. and watched a lot of local television news, and I started to see the burn logos up on the upper right hand corner - On-Scene Video, RMG Media Group, and all these other ones. I just became intrigued with it.
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I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to the wind and really put it out there as they saw it.
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When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.
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Secularism, with its moral relativism, is in direct opposition to Christianity and its absolute morality. The battle is between these two worldviews-one that stands on God's Word and one that accepts man's opinions.
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So now my road map has changed and I don't have a really clear idea of what the next stops are.
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The higher the yield, the higher the risk. A high yield is designed to attract investors. An outrageously high yield attracts fools.
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Everything that's supposedly caused by stress, I tell people there's a Nobel Prize there if you find out the real cause.
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For me there were only two ways on the precipice - either I have to fall in or I have to fall out, to accept or say good-bye. The moment I crossed the precipice, it no longer was a discipline - it became a passion, an urge to pursue. Then I experienced freedom. Freedom comes when the discipline revolutionizes the discipline as a passion for the art.
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No, the only way to know what people think is to watch what they do, not what they say. Do they come back for more? Do you cause them to change their behavior? Can you make them smile?
