Seth Godin Quotes
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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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The world is begging for you to lead.
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Human nature is to need a map. If you’re brave enough to draw one, people will follow.
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What I mean by art is the human act of doing something that connects us to someone else
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Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.
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Even good excuses, really good ones, don't help very much. Explanations, on the other hand, are both scarce and useful. And accurate forecasts and insightful intuition are priceless.
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If you don't know how it works, find out. If you're not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn't make sense, play with it until it does. If it's not broken, break it. If it might not be true, find out.
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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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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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There are lots of good reasons to abandon a project. Having a little competition is not one of them.
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If you don't like your definition of 'good enough', then feel free to change that, but the goal before shipping is merely that. Not perfect.
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Big ideas are little ideas that no-one killed too soon.
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Self sufficiency appears to be a worthy goal, but it's now impossible if you want to actually get anything done. All our productivity, leverage and insight comes from being part of a community, not apart from it. The goal, I think, is to figure out how to become more dependent, not less.
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It might be bold to put your work into the world unadorned, but it's probably ineffective.
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We're going to spend our entire future living in tomorrow-investing now, when it's difficult, is the single best moment.
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Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about.
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You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some action.
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A dialogue leads to connection, which leads to trust which leads to engagement
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You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.
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It's pretty easy to decide to roll with the punches, to look at the enormity of natural disaster and choose to hunker down and do less. It's more important than ever, I think, to persist and make a dent in the universe instead. We've all been offered access to so many tools, so many valuable connections, so many committed people. What an opportunity.
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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 minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.
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That the horrible Zika virus or HIV, we can look at what it means to be patient zero, what it means to need not much contact to spread, and all of those things follow into the way ideas spread.
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We have little choice but to move beyond quality and seek remarkable, connected, and new. Remarkable, as you've already figured out, demands initiative.