Seth Godin Quotes
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Entertainment has seduced us into believing that we have a chance to live the life they live in the movies. Even the people in the movies don't live that life. It doesn't take 135 minutes to make a life, it takes almost a century. Everything doesn't depend on what happens in the next ninety seconds. Ever.
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The resistance is not something to be avoided, it's something to seek out.
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When you are trusted because you care, it's quite likely the revenue will take care of itself
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Just about anything worth doing is worth doing better.
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If you're remarkable it's likely that some people won't like you.
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You don't need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment.
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Every activity worth doing has a learning curve.
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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.
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Practice works because practice gives us a chance to relax enough to make smart choices.
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Success comes from doing the hard part. When the hard part is all you've got, you're more likely to do it. And this is precisely why it's difficult to focus. Because focusing means acknowledging that you just signed up for the hard part.
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Who gets to decide what you want?
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We don't need more stuff, we need more humanity.
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If you're different somehow and have made yourself unique, people will find you and pay you more.
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Low price is a great way to sell a commodity. That's not marketing though, that's efficiency.
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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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The application process changes the list of who applies. Your applicants reflect your methods.
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If you're not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better.
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Giving people what they want isn't always what they want.
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I think "creativity" is better described as failing repeatedly until you get something right.
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No, everything is not going to be okay. It never is. It isn't okay now. Change, by definition, changes things
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If you try to delight the undelightable, you've made yourself miserable for no reason.
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Marketing used to be what you say. Now, marketing is what you do. What you make. How you act. The choices you make when you are sure no one is looking.
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It takes three years to be an overnight success, sometimes more.
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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.