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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We're always going to be a society that's going to slow down and look at the wreck on the side if the road if there is one. We're always going to do that because it's still fascinating and it's human nature.
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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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As the Cold War melts into history, our first concern should be the preservation and extension of human rights and democracy.
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The society that produced The Who, The Stones, Dylan, Paul McCartney and later on people, like myself, is over. The materialistic society that produces these kinds of bombastic performances that don't have any value or musical meaning, is very conspicuous, look at me, I'm rich, dig my brand. That's what missing, Bob Dylan made us feel worthy, I try to do the same thing. Respect for the audience with music that is meaningful and soulful. Go for what moves you and not necessarily what you think will be commercial.
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What more chilling indictment of the modern world is there than this: that the condition of the smartphone user is that of a dumb animal. Moooo!
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I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities. Do you blame me then for staying here, where I feel that I belong and am one with the world around me? It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty
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Our cultural instinct is to wait to get picked. No one is going to pick you. Pick yourself.
