Seth Godin Quotes
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Put aside your need for a step-by-step manual and instead realize that analogies are your best friend.
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The instinct to produce great work doesn't require a fancy notebook.
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You can't win by being more average than average.
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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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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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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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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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Tribes makes our lives better, and leading a tribe is the best life of all.
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We don't become mediocre all at once, and we rarely do it on purpose.
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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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The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.
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Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.
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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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I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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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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Speak up. Not just tomorrow, but every day.
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Art...is the intentional act of using your humanity to create a change in another person...Passion is caring enough about your art that you will do almost anything to give it away, to make it a gift, to change people.
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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?
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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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Instead of working so hard to prove the skeptics wrong, it makes a lot more sense to delight the true believers. They deserve it, after all, and they're the ones that are going to spread the word for you.
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It's possible that your next frontier isn't to get more efficient, it's to get more brave.
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I feel like I'm treating people as I'd like to be treated.
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How do I dance with the fear? Fear is not the enemy. Paralysis is the enemy.
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People who make a difference never wait for just the right time. They know that it will never arrive.