Seth Godin Quotes
The people that are doing work that matters aren't doing work thats popular. They're just doing work that changes some people.
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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I just wanted to defend football, which is not always easy to do. Those of us who have been in the sport so many years now realise we must protect it and look after it. I was speaking about football, what it means. It is our profession, it has been our lives, and we must take care of it a little.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
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But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.
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I guess I'm quite practical. Or at least like to think I am.
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My only personal time is a couple of hours in the gym in the morning.
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The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.
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Early versions of Microsoft Word left a lot to be desired. However, to the company's credit, it quickly learned where Word fell short, made the necessary changes, and repeatedly introduced new versions of the software.
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I read so many things because a colleague or a friend will post something, and I'll be able to learn a tremendous amount only because they drew attention to it. So I try to do that for others, and that's the great thing about social media. It's not always a narcissistic cesspool or waste of time.
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'Mosaic' is about what we see and what we don't see. I learned how people can develop other senses to compensate for a missing one when I was a child. My best friend, Carol, who is profoundly deaf, saved me from an approaching car that she 'heard' when I didn't.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
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My parents used to park us kids at the public library in downtown Honolulu every Saturday. They'd leave us there at 8 A.M. and pick us up at 4 P.M. - so between those hours, you'd better find something to do! I sat upstairs in the picture room and went through opera, ballet, and theater books. I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes - they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn't have much of a social life.
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To be a success in advertising you must want to fill other people with a passion for possession.
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The people that are doing work that matters aren't doing work thats popular. They're just doing work that changes some people.
