Seth Godin Quotes
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You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.
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Go do something interesting. Ask if you need help.
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Your drudgery is another person's delight. It's only a job if you treat it that way. The privilege to do our work, to be in control of the promises we make and the things we build, is something worth cherishing.
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If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either.
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The people who are the best in the world specialize at getting really good at the questions they don't know.
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The wettest, weirdest environment is human interaction. Whatever we build gets misunderstood, corroded and chronic, and it happens quickly and in unpredictable ways. That's one reason why the web is so fascinating-it's a collision between the analytic world of code and wet world of people.
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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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If you are afraid to write or edit or assemble or disassemble, you are merely a spectator. And you are trapped, trapped by the instructions of those you've chosen to follow. Twenty people in the field and eighty thousand in the stands. The spectators are the ones who paid to watch, but it's the player on the field who are truly alive.
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Forgive yourself for not being the richest, the thinnest, the tallest, the one with the best hair. Forgive yourself for not being the most successful, the cutest or the one with the fastest time. Forgive yourself for not winning every round. Forgive yourself for being afraid. But don’t let yourself off the hook, never forgive yourself, for not caring or not trying.
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In the long run, doing work that's important leads to more happiness than doing work that's merely profitable.
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Every great company, brand, career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little.
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The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified... and pick yourself.
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I feel like I'm treating people as I'd like to be treated.
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Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.
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The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.
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As soon as we associate reading with a test, we've missed the point.
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The only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing
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We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid.
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Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear.
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What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money.
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Gifts are not favors. If you expect something in return, it's not a gift.
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Stop trying to find the formula that will instantly make your idea into a winner. Instead of being scientists, the best marketers are artists. They realize that whatever is being sold is being purchased, because it creates an emotional want, not because it fills a simple need.
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If you want to dig a big hole, you need to stay in one place.
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You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night.