Seth Godin Quotes
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If you're remarkable it's likely that some people won't like you.
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Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you'll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn't make you better.
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No is the foundation that we can build our yes on.
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Design is the last great competitive advantage.
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When your art fails, make better art.
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Being charismatic doesn't make you a leader. Being a leader makes you charismatic.
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There's no life-work balance. I think you have to have the discipline to have the life you want to have. And if you are stealing from one part of your life in order to make the other part work, you are going to pay for it.
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The notion that I do my work here, now, like this, even when I do not feel like it, and especially when I do not feel like it, is very important. Because lots and lots of people are creative when they feel like it, but you are only going to become a professional if you do it when you don't feel like it. And that emotional waiver is why this is your work and not your hobby.
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Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
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One reason people who spend a lot of time thinking about and working on a problem or a craft seem to find breakthroughs more often than everyone else is that they've failed more often than everyone else.
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Art is the act of doing work that matters while dancing with the voice in your head that screams for you to stop.
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If you want to dig a big hole, you need to stay in one place.
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Competence is no longer a scarce commodity.
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You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
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Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told. And most people who are doing what they are told feel safe; it feels reliable.
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Excellence isn’t about working extra hard to do what you’re told. It’s about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.
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School is at its best when it gives students the expectation that they will not only dream big, but dream dreams that they can work on every day until they accomplish them-not because they were chosen by a black-box process, but because they worked hard enough to reach them.
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You have to pay the price to be in the right place at the right time often enough that people tend to see you as the regular kind.
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People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.
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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 best experiences and the biggest ideas don't fit into a category. They change it.
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Studying entrepreneurshi p without doing it... is like studying the appreciation of music without listening to it.
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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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The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.