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 was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
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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 will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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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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I'm a very romantic and passionate guy.
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All portions of All That Is are constantly changing, enfolding, and unfolding. All That Is, seeking to know Itself, constantly creates new versions of Itself. For this seeking Itself is a creative activity and the core of all action.
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Most competition in Silicon Valley now heads toward there being one monopolistic winner.
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Most of your competition spend their days looking forward to those rare moments when everything goes right. Imagine how much leverage you have if you spend your time maximizing those common moments when it doesn't.
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Playing the game is a form of winning the game. In those competitions, we win by being resilient.
