Seth Godin Quotes
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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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I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.
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The way I understand gifts is that the giver must make a sacrifice, create an uneven exchange, bring himself closer to the recipient, create change and do it all with the right spirit.
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If you can embrace the idea that your success and happiness are tied up in defeating the fear that's holding you back, you're 90 percent of the way to where you need to go, because no, we're not kids, and no, this is not a bike.
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As long as you want to please everyone, you won't please anyone.
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Is it worth getting one more tweet out, or putting your phone down and doing something that is worth tweeting?
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Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.
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Don't try to be the 'next'. Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new.
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Your biggest failure is the thing you dreamed of contributing but didn't find the guts to do.
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Do the emotional labor of working on things that others fear.
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Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
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The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.
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If you can raise money, you're never going to have trouble getting a job.
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By definition, remarkable things get remarked upon
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The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they've got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.
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If you're remarkable it's likely that some people won't like you.
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Evolution is the most popular way we have for dealing with change.
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Go ahead, do something impossible.
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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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... outsiders are way more likely to approach your organization with fabulous projects if they think they're likely to both get a good reception and succeed when they get to market.
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If you want to be a leader, go lead
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Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself.
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The digital asset that matters is trust. Awareness first, then interaction, and maybe a habit, but all three mean nothing if they don't lead to permission and trust. The privilege of connection. Everything else is slippery.
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And in a world where we have too many choices and too little time, the obvious thing to do is just ignore stuff. And my parable here is, you're driving down the road and you see a cow, and you keep driving 'cause you've seen cows before. Cows are invisible. Cows are boring. Who's going to stop and pull over and say, oh, look, a cow? Nobody.