Seth Godin Quotes
Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.
Quotes to Explore
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I suffer from an amazing amount of insecurities, and I'm grateful that my body image, it's normally not something I pay attention to.
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But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.
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The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.
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Act because you love to act.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.
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Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
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I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
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Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you have all you need. The production then just polishes that idea into the finished thing.
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I'm gonna drop fitty. I'm gonna drop fitty pounds. How many quarter-pounders with cheeses is that? I'm gonna drop 200 quarter-pounder with cheeses.
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When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.
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Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I've had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.
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I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.
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I look at other people my age in this industry, other famous people my age, and they've just got famous friends. Which is cool, but I love being normal and just chilling at mine.
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Why consider debates in the English House of Commons in 1628 along with documents on American developments in the late eighteenth century? The juxtaposition is not capricious, because the Commons during this period generated many of the ideas that were later embodied in the government of the United States.
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You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
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There's nothing standard about a wedding dress or shoes anymore.
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Opportunities are sometimes disguised as misfortune.
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Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media.
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If in looking at a picture you have been profoundly moved by it, but have not noticed the color or drawing, you may be sure that they are technically perfect.
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Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.
