Seth Godin Quotes
The reason business writing is horrible is that people are afraid. Afraid to say what they mean, because they might be criticized for it. Afraid to be misunderstood, to be accused of saying what they didn't mean, because they might be criticized for it.
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.
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I knew boxing before I knew anything else.
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The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
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I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda.
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I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood does to you?
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Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
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If one person is spending all of their income on clothes, travel, hobbies, and entertaining, and one person is saving it, that may not be quite fair if and when you guys split up, depending on what the law is and what you decided to do.
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I always mean what I say, but I don't always say what I'm thinking.
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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I try my best to stay healthy by paying attention to the ingredients in foods and trying to make sure my food is organic and not full of sugar or preservatives. I also try to do at least 30 minutes of cardio every day in the gym.
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I'm interested in damaged people because we've all been roughed up in one way or another.
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I want to reach the point where people hear my name and immediately think of real country music.
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The reason business writing is horrible is that people are afraid. Afraid to say what they mean, because they might be criticized for it. Afraid to be misunderstood, to be accused of saying what they didn't mean, because they might be criticized for it.
