Seth Godin Quotes
Our cultural instinct is to wait to get picked. No one is going to pick you. Pick yourself.
Quotes to Explore
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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.
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Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.
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You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire.
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I have never played a game in my life.
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I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey
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I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
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Don't talk about yourself so much...we'll do that when you leave.
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Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?
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I think people are just creative, and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan and David Bowie create both music and art.
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In emotions you should be bubbling with joy. Joy is your emotion. In action you should be thoughtless and in ascent you should be surrendered.
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I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.
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Civilization is not a burden. It is an opportunity.
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Writing a play is like smashing that [glass] ashtray, filming it in slow motion, and then running the film in reverse, so that the fragments of rubble appear to fly together. You start - or at least I start - with the rubble.
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I was beginning to see, though, that the unknown wasn't always the greatest thing to fear. The people who know you best can be risker, because the words they say and things they think have the potential to be not only scary but true, as well.
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Our cultural instinct is to wait to get picked. No one is going to pick you. Pick yourself.
