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 don't want to be any kind of producer at all - hands-on or otherwise! I feel producing is a very difficult job and creates ulcers! Maybe some people would like to have a certain amount of control; not me. It's too much stress and includes managing everybody's egos... handling my own is enough!
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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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You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right.
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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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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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If you live your life as a hostage to everybody else's decision, you either have to live a very narrow life, or you have to spend a lot of time in pain.
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If historical experience could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.
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Surfing the Internet every day has become a habit for many leaders and officials, including myself.
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I'm at my best when I'm being genuine and sincere, and reading my material straight up to an audience that wants to listen.
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Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.
