Seth Godin Quotes
Your audacious life goals are fabulous. We're proud of you for having them. But it's possible that those goals are designed to distract you from the thing that's really frightening you--the shift in daily habits that would mean a re-invention of how you see yourself.
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I don't believe in the 100 crore club.
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I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters.
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This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
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It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.
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Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.
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It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.
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I write 1,000-1,500 words. The next day, I rewrite it and add 1,000-1,500 words to the end of it.
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Not too many people know it, but when I was in junior high, I was a pretty tough kid and was the leader of a street gang. Well, OK, it was less a street gang than an Ecology Club. We were pretty intimidating, though, and had our own meeting room until we got run out of there by a bunch of thugs from the Poetry Society.
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I read widely - for news, the arts, science, for entertainment, and the value of being informed - and, as a fiction writer, I can't help transposing what I learn into the scenario for a novel or story.
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We're just a bubble in a boiling pot.
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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
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Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.
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I'm very happy for the Contreras family. They're out. Now they've got a chance to experience life the way I did as a kid. You know, his kids are going to have a real chance in life now, and the same way that I had it.
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Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam the door on potential opportunities. We go through life walking a tightrope to prevent too much disillusionment.
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Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.
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I am committed to the idea of information politics. That is how contemporary politics are played out.
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We fall in love more deeply when we're unhappy.
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I think God is perfect, all-powerful and has an unstoppable plan for everyone, including those who love him and those who don't.
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I'm doing exactly what I want to do, and I'm having fun doing it.
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The Chinese state is constructed in an entirely different way from western states. Unlike European states, for over a millennium the Chinese state has not been obliged to compete for power with rivals such as the church, the aristocracy or merchants.
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habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.
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Your audacious life goals are fabulous. We're proud of you for having them. But it's possible that those goals are designed to distract you from the thing that's really frightening you--the shift in daily habits that would mean a re-invention of how you see yourself.
