Seth Godin Quotes
Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no.
Quotes to Explore
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.
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I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.
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Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.
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Learning to write comics is, in fact, so bloody difficult because it's such a weird form that it does actually make you a bit more adaptable for other forms.
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The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.
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The ultimate thing is creating your own stuff and making projects for yourself. That's what Seth Rogen does. He's writing and producing a lot of the movies that he's the lead in.
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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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I wear a lot of tight dresses, so I'm like, 'I need to do my sit-ups!'
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There's so many documentaries out there right now and everything's exposing wrestling.
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The real end winner of NAFTA is going to be Mexico because we have the human capital. We have that resource that is vital to the success of the U.S. economy.
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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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Why go on vacation when work is so much more fun.
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I'm trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I'm supposed to do.
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I met Jill Soloway at Sundance a couple years ago. I was there for 'Crystal Fairy', and she was there for 'Afternoon Delight'. She reached out and wanted to get together.
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Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company.
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People are seeking more power in the individual and less in government and institutions; they want more cooperation and less competition.
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Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.
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We try to make films for people [that are] the films that we'd like to see. They're not easy to get made. They're hard to get made. You have to keep the budget low to get them made. But at the end of the day, I don't really worry about competition, because I don't really think of it that way. I don't feel like I'm in a race with anybody.
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The competition is a big part of it racing - the passion you have for the sport and the knowledge you have. You're not just going to wake up one day and say, " think I'll do something different." This is what I've done my whole life. My competitive nature and my passion for the sport, those are the things that keep you wanting to do better.
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Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no.
