Seth Godin Quotes
So sure, start with a slogan. But don't bother wasting any time on it if you're merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead.
Quotes to Explore
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
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Just because you have a disagreement with your friends or family members does not mean there are not plenty of other areas on which you see eye to eye. It just means you have a difference of opinion.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.
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It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.
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The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.
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One is always considered mad, when one discovers something that others cannot grasp.
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I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.
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I don’t consider my own clothing to be outrageous... The truth is that people just don’t have the same references that I do. To me it’s very beautiful and it’s art, and to them it’s outrageous and crazy.
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I did miss the music a bit - but only in the wings, when I was waiting to go on. It seemed dreadfully quiet, rather unnerving. But the wonderful thing was that one didn't have to be quite so obsessive about one's health, and one's voice.
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Need is not quite belief.
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We came into a homeless frontier, a place where we were not welcome, where nothing that lived was welcome, where thought and logic were abhorrent and we were frightened, but we went into this place because the universe lay before us, and if we were to know ourselves, we must know the universe...
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I spend so much of my time working away, but I love being here. My family is in Somerset, and this is where my heart is.
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Set goals but be flexible.
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It is extremely necessary to realize that the world doesn't only have one way of seeing things.
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The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
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In response to Curt Gowdy's death.
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Lukewarm people do not live by faith; their lives are structured so they never have to. They don't have to trust God if something unexpected happens- they have their savings account. They don't need God to help them- they have their retirement plan in place. They don't genuinely seek out what life God would have them live- they have life figured and mapped out. They don't depend on God on a daily basis- their refrigerators are full and, for the most part, they are in good health. The truth is, their lives wouldn't look much different if they suddenly stopped believing in God.
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Allen Iverson was the Tupac of basketball; he was a true revolutionary.
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As a gay black man, it's important to me to show up - that I'm able to show up as my whole self, in every space that I'm in, because that's how I'm able to be the most true to who I am.
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It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.
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So sure, start with a slogan. But don't bother wasting any time on it if you're merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead.
