Seth Godin Quotes
Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.
Quotes to Explore
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.
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As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
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We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
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It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.
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You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
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There is Twitter outrage at everything. Be it a pair of trousers or a short skirt, somebody, somewhere, will not like it.
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Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that.
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I don't tweet because I don't need another creative venue. I don't need another form for self-expression. I don't need another way to get my thoughts out to people. I have one. I'm good.
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Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.
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In chamber music, the audience can hear each instrument and understand (and feel) what the composer and the musicians have in mind as they play.
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I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.
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We cannot disguise hostility towards any religion behind the pretence of liberalism.
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The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.
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But can I tell the genuine-article Italian from the poseur Italian? No. To me they all seem like poseurs.
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There was a brief period of time when I was very young where I thought I wanted to be a veterinarian - largely because I liked cats - but then somebody told me I would have to cut animals open, and that was the end of that.
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I'm a DJ, and I live in Williamsburg, and I run an independent record company.
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My problem with the search for the badge of real is that it trades your goals and your happiness for someone else's.
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Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.
