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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We're just going to be ourselves, and we're just going to cross our fingers and hope that people like it. Because that's all you can do.
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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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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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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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I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.
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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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My favourite actress is Meryl Streep. Oh, and Anna Magnani.
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If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.
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There's never any time I think I'm a real journalist, because I don't have any of the qualifications or the intentions for that.
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There's all kind of things going on in the world that I don't like but I can't change. But at least I can say, 'Change the way you eat!'
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Ideally, we'd want an Irishman coming in for the job, but, ideally it doesn't really matter.
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Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.
