Seth Godin Quotes
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
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At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.
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I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
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I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.
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There's a big difference between being privileged and being spoilt. My parents always said, 'Spoilt means ruined, and you're not ruined, just incredibly fortunate.'
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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
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We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
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He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.
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The particular way I'm going to die is not going to be particularly pleasant. It will probably be physically uncomfortable, and it won't be an easy thing for my wife and kids to watch. I think it will be a real challenge to see if I can squeeze the lemons hard enough to still get lemonade the last few weeks.
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There should be an app or service that comes and packs your bag for you so you don't have to do it. A real-life Siri.
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I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.
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Making men live in three worlds at once - past, present and future has been the chief harm organized religion has done.
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I think the American Dream should be about a greater progressive legislation that allows for what I call a necessary future world of cooperational humanism.
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Bullfighting has some of the elements of a sport or contest, and in the United States most people think of it as a sport, an unfair sport. If you're in Spain or Mexico it's absolutely not a sport; it's not thought of as a sport and it's not written about as a sport. It has elements of public spectacle, but then so does, for example, the Super Bowl. It has elements of a deeply entrenched, deeply conservative tradition, a tradition that resists change, as you pointed out.
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The future isn't so much about absorbing or tolerating change, it's about making change.
