Seth Godin Quotes
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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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Art is when we do work that matters in a creative way, in a way that touches (people) and changes them for the better.
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It’s okay. Let your ego push you to be the initiator. But tell your ego that the best way to get something shipped is to let other people take the credit. The real win for you (and your ego) is seeing something get shipped, not in getting the credit when it does.
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The universal truth is beyond question-the only people who excel are those who have decided to do so.
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Positive thinking doesn't guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.
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Our job is to make change. Our job is to connect to people, to interact with them in a way that leaves them better than we found them, more able to get where they'd like to go. Every time we waste that opportunity, every page or sentence that doesn't do enough to advance the cause is waste.
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Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.
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The one path that never works is the most common one: doing nothing at all.
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Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.
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Little changes cost you. Big changes benefit you by changing the game, but only if you go first.
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When you walk around braced for impact, you're dramatically decreasing your chances. Your chances to avoid the outcome you fear, your chances to make a difference, and your chances to breathe and connect.
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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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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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If you don't require the journey to be easy or comfortable or safe, you can change the world.
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Data is not useful until it becomes information.
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Success brings with it the fear of blowing it. With more to lose, there's more pressure not to lose it.
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People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.
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The real power of tribes has nothing to do with the Internet and everything to do with people.
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There's nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.
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More and more people now have jobs that require them to confront the risk of appearing stupid on a regular basis.
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I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths... whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over
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The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.
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Sometimes, we're so focused on being consistent that we also lower the bar on amazing. After all, the thinking goes, if we can't be amazing all the time, better to reset the expectation to merely good. Which robs us of the ability to (sometimes) be amazing.