Seth Godin Quotes
Playing the game is a form of winning the game. In those competitions, we win by being resilient.
Quotes to Explore
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I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
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Making films is my hobby. It relaxes me; it is my life, and it's one of the best jobs in the world. I go to work and solve problems, fight robots, kill aliens, and kiss beautiful women. I'm a very lucky man.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.
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I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.
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I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
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I learnt circus skills in drama group, so I can juggle.
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I naturally favour a clean, healthy diet. A salad sandwich is one of my favourite meals!
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The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
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Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust and fear and anger.
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My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.
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The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you don't end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy.
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What's to gain by silence?
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Liberation of the seer is the result of the dissassociation of the seer and the seen.
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Avoid conducting official Department business from your personal e-mail accounts.
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You cannot rob me of free nature's grace,You cannot shut the windows of the skyThrough which Aurora shows her brightening face.
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Self-conceit is the enemy of progress.
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'The Haunted Man' is about communication barriers between men and women, and in that song it's a woman's wait for her husband to come back from war. The vision for me was of a group of men and women on the opposite sides of two cliffs, trying to move or sing to each other and communicate, but they're kind of misfiring.
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America has the best hand ever dealt to any country on this planet, ever. Yes, we have problems, but you travel around the world, you'll see we have it all.
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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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Why does everyone talk about the past? All that counts is tomorrow's game.
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Playing the game is a form of winning the game. In those competitions, we win by being resilient.
