Seth Godin Quotes
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Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.
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Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
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That's one thing the musicians don't remember: you don't choose your demographic - they choose you.
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I find L.A. kind of romantic, actually. As a movie junkie, it's a city that was built by the movies. There's something really weird and surreal about it that I find energizing.
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I don't doubt a number of those ballots, of those votes that were cast for me, probably were intended for Vice President Gore.
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Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.
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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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Only the highway of useful service leads to the city of happiness.
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If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die.
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Time is the least thing we have.
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In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves. Joyce was a very great writer and he would only explain what he was doing to jerks. Other writers that he respected were supposed to be able to know what he was doing by reading it.
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Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.
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But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime.
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I've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.
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Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.
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Soon is not as good as now.
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When you want to do a big thing, get the mental pattern, make it perfect, know just what it means, enlarge your thought, keep it to yourself, pass it over to the creative power behind all things, wait and listen, and when the impression comes, follow it with assurance. Don't talk to anyone about it. Never listen to negative talk or pay attention to it and you will succeed where all others fail.
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We fail when we give up too soon.
