Seth Godin Quotes
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Your positions on EVERYTHING are based on the story you tell yourself and not some universal fact from the universal fact database.
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The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.
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I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Speak up. Not just tomorrow, but every day.
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I have something to say. I know how to do something. I’m doing it. If you want me to do it with you, raise your hand.
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Marketing tells a story that spreads. Sales overcomes the natural resistance to say yes.
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What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer? If you're not, you're wasting away.
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In contemporary art or movies, it makes perfect sense to be focused on the bleeding edge, on the new idea that's never been previously contemplated. But when we're discussing our goals, our passion and the way we interact with the culture, it seems to me that what works is significantly more important than what's new.
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Tribes makes our lives better, and leading a tribe is the best life of all.
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Great projects, like great careers and relationships that last, are gardens. They are tended, they shift, they grow. They endure over time, gaining a personality and reflecting their environment. When something dies or fades away, we prune, replant and grow again.
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Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.
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If you hesitate to map out your future, to make a big plan or to set a goal, you've just gone ahead and mapped your future anyway.
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As the amount of inputs go up, as the number of people and ideas that clamor for attention continue to increase, we do what people always do: we rely on the familiar, the trusted and the personal. The incredible surplus of digital data means that human actions, generosity and sacrifice are more important than they ever were before.
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We don't become mediocre all at once, and we rarely do it on purpose.
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How do I dance with the fear? Fear is not the enemy. Paralysis is the enemy.
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The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission
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The easiest way to thrive as an outlier is to avoid being one. At least among your most treasured peers. Surround yourself with people in at least as much of a hurry, at least as inquisitive, at least as focused as you are.
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Acknowledge to yourself that the factory job is dead. Having a factory job is not a natural state. It wasn't at the heart of being human until very recently. We've been culturally brainwashed.
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I feel like I'm treating people as I'd like to be treated.
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All good ideas are terrible... Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part.
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The instinct to produce great work doesn't require a fancy notebook.
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Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.
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It's entirely possible that there won't be a standing ovation at the end of your journey. That's okay. At least you lived.
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Which are you?...competen t, inspiring, passionate, obsessed, provocative, impatient, hungry, driven, adoring, inspired, an artist, a genius, someone who cares...? With all these remarkable, powerful, important options available to each of us, why do so many of us default to competent?