Seth Godin Quotes
The best creative solutions don't come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented... They come from inventing new questions!
Quotes to Explore
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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Ozzy has dyslexia.
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Everybody needs money, but I'm a fighter. For what I make, I'm happy with what I make. The money is not everything; it's about honor.
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My father's music has always inspired me in many ways... especially to be better at what I do.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.
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When I'm not painting, I'm Oujia-boarding with my photos. I'll sort through my pictures, put them in different folders, and come back months later to one in particular and try to figure out why I took it.
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You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just a microphone.
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I've been an actress for years, and I've worked with one female director. Statistically it's less than 7% or 12% - I mean, it's low, not representative. So, hopefully, more women will be given opportunities to direct, or create opportunities to direct themselves.
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I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
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If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again.
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I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They're here to criticize all of us. That's just how it is. We as MC's criticize each other. That's the nature of hip-hop.
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The biggest ambition in my career is still to win the European Cup. I want to have a picture of that to look at later; I want to have that medal. You can have a contract that is better than your friends, but no player looks back and says: 'I won more money.'
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I go through periods where I don't really care what I look like, because I feel more focused on the work that I'm doing, and I don't want to think about it. And then sometimes it feels like the biggest part of my day is getting dressed.
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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.
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A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
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My parents always encouraged me to do creative stuff, to do weird stuff.
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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing.
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The best creative solutions don't come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented... They come from inventing new questions!
