Seth Godin Quotes
What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer? If you're not, you're wasting away.
Quotes to Explore
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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
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I'm open to sci-fi, but I was never a diehard fan. I have no idea why it keeps following me. I'm extremely lucky, I guess; it's a lucrative venue.
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It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned version of what took place.
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Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
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The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.
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If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.
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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
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Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don't believe in that because I think that is much too subjective.
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Sometimes I get very dressed up just to go to the corner for some bread; I dress for my own amusement.
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If I hadn't have been good enough at football, I'd have been a sports journalist - which is what I do now anyway. Or a cricketer. I might have been a cricketer.
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In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.
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People say that globalisation has negative aspects, but I don't believe globalisation is bad. It's criticised from a western perspective, but if you put yourself in the shoes of people in the developing world, it provides an unprecedented opportunity.
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We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.
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I like to work.
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Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.
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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
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Chess is a lot of fun for me. Football is a physical game, and in chess you can just beat someone mentally - you outwit somebody, outmaneuver them, think ahead of them.
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If, when I leave this earth, I'm remembered for 'Fargo,' so be it. But I think old Marge Gunderson is gonna get a run for her money with Olive Kittredge.
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A lot of children find symbolic arithmetic quite difficult and tedious, yet the children loved our tasks. They were games, the children were very happy to play them, and they were also they were good at them.
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A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
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I've always fought as a heavyweight, and I didn't see any reason to fight at a lighter weight.
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I have literally been working in music just about my entire life.
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What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer? If you're not, you're wasting away.
