Seth Godin Quotes
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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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The opposite of coherent is interesting.
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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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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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At the heart of art is learning to see
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Excellence isn't about meeting the spec, it's about setting the spec.
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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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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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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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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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The problem with putting it all on the line is that it might not work out. The problem with not putting it all on the line is that it will never (ever) change things for the better. Not much of a choice, I think.
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Not only are bloggers suckers for the remarkable, so are the people who read blogs.
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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 market and the consumer and idea trump the system.
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An organization filled with honest, motivated, connected, eager, learning, experimenting, ethical and driven people will always defeat the one that merely has talent. Every time.
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Loving what you do is almost as important as doing what you love, especially if you need to make a living at it.
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You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.
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When you can swim, who cares how deep the water is?
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How often do our heroes stand still? It's hard to imagine Spock and Kirk landing on a planet and just relaxing for a month or two. Just hanging out has nothing to do with boldly going where no one has gone before. What makes us different from every other creature is that we go places, places we've not gone before. We do it willingly, and often. What makes our work and our life interesting is discovery, surprise, and the risk of exploration.
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If you think your organization needs a bigger marketing budget, maybe you just need to be less average instead.
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Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.
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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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You don't need more time in your day. You need to decide.
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The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.