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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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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Liberation of the seer is the result of the dissassociation of the seer and the seen.
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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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Happiness does not await us all. One needn’t be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.
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Coconut oil. I rub it through my hair, all over my skin, all over my body. Natural's the better way to go.
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There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.
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Those Montana Indians were so tough that white people were scared of them. Can you imagine a place where white people are scared of Indians and not the other way around? That's Montana.
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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.
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Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.
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Honestly, I don't know enough about what's a good timeslot and what isn't. Either you have a timeslot where nobody is really tuning in, which isn't good, or you're in a good hour, and then you've got a lot of competition.
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The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny: the rule of the few by the many is tyranny also; only of a less intense kind.
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Playing the game is a form of winning the game. In those competitions, we win by being resilient.
