Seth Godin Quotes
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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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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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The one path that never works is the most common one: doing nothing at all.
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Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.
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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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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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I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the expense. An amorphous organization with no transparency, unclear lines of responsibility, huge amounts of politics and a great deal of unearned power.
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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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Good advice is priceless. Not what you want to hear, but what you need to hear. Not imaginary, but practical. Not based on fear, but on possibility. Not designed to make you feel better, designed to make you better. Seek it out and embrace the true friends that care enough to risk sharing it. I'm not sure what takes more guts-giving it or getting it.
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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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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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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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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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The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Design is the last great competitive advantage.
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Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it