Seth Godin Quotes
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Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that is creative, passionate and personal. Art is the unique work of a human being created to touch another. Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else.
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Don’t do it because it’s your job, do it because you can.
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Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy.
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The fatigue was there, but some people understood that putting it aside was the single most important factor in succeeding.
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Don't fix me; Love me for what's broken.
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Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.
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Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.
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Soon is not as good as now.
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The problem with working with a coach isn't that we don't know what to do. The real problem is that we don't want to change our mind.
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Not only must you be an artist, must you be generous, and must you be able to see where you can help but you must also be aware. Aware of where your skills are welcomed.
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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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Gifts are not favors. If you expect something in return, it's not a gift.
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Basically you create your experience through your beliefs about yourself and the nature of reality. Another way to understand this is to realize that you create your experiences through your expectations.
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More process, less innovation. More operations, less innovation. More management, less innovation. More entrepreneurs, more innovation.
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Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it
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We're often in a hurry to finish. Or in a hurry to close a sale. What happens when we adopt the posture of being in a hurry to be generous? With resources or insight or access or kindness... It's an interesting sort of impatience.
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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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Remarkable work is always not on the list, because if it was, it would be commonplace, not remarkable.
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When we think about what might go wrong, we're more likely to design something that goes right.
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Once you have permission to talk to someone, finding new products or services for them is a smart way to grow.
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Design is the last great competitive advantage.
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I learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge.
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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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The reason they want you to fit in... is that once you do, then they can ignore you.