Seth Godin Quotes
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The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.
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The tragedy is that society (your school, your boss, your government, your family) keeps drumming the genius part out. The problem is that our culture has engaged in a Faustian bargain, in which we trade our genius and artistry for apparent stability.
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After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.
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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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My new favorite word is 'awkward.'...Th e reason we need to be in search of awkward is that awkward is the barrier between us and excellence, between where we are and the remarkable. If it were easy, everyone would have done it already, and it wouldn't be worth the effort.
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If you use your money to create exceptional products and services, you won't need to spend it on advertising.
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Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world.
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When exactly were we brainwashed into believing that the best way to earn a living is to have a job?
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If you hear my idea and dont believe it , thats not your fault its mine.
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Most of your competition spend their days looking forward to those rare moments when everything goes right. Imagine how much leverage you have if you spend your time maximizing those common moments when it doesn't.
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The way you make something happen is to do something that a fool could screw up.
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The way to get unstuck is to start down the wrong path, right now.
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Life is like skiing. Just like skiing, the goal is not to get to the bottom of the hill. It's to have a bunch of good runs before the sun sets.
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A symptom of the revolution: When we state something is impossible in theory, but then change our minds when we discover that it is possible in practice.
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Emotional labor is available to all of us, but it is rarely exploited as a competitive advantage.
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An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.
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Leaders who set out to give are more productive than leaders who seek to get.
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I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Positive thinking doesn't guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.
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The best way to be missed when you're gone is to stand for something when you're here.
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I find that it's almost essential to fall in love with an idea to invest the time it takes to make it good and worth sharing. And then, the hard part: deleting that idea when it's just not what it could be. Too often, organizations are good at the first part, but struggle with the second. And so we defend expired business models, support the status quo and have a knee-jerk inclination to preserve what we've got.
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Mass marketing means appealing to the masses which means appealing to the average.
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New fashions (of all sorts) come from unexpected places, not from the arbiters of what's correct.
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If you believe that a given situation should make you unhappy, then it will, and the unhappiness will then reinforce the condition.