Seth Godin Quotes
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As soon as you are willing to say 'it's not for you', you're freed up to make art.
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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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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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If you want to dig a big hole, you need to stay in one place.
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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 way you feel about giving money to good causes has a lot to do with the way you feel about money.
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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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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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Pain s the truth of art. Art is not a hobby or a pastime. It is the result of an internal battle royal, one between the quest for safety and the desire to matter.
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Everyone has a comfort zone. Worth considering: How hard (and how often) are you willing to work to get out of it? You can turn that into a habit if you choose.
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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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Getting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it's not a plan. It's a version of waiting and hoping.
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Everyone is not your customer.
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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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Being an artist isn't a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It's an attitude we can all adopt. It's a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you're an artist.
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The reason they want you to fit in... is that once you do, then they can ignore you.
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Perhaps marketing is about to transition to a new kind of profession, one that requires insight, dedication and smarts.
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The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.
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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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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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No one is as smart as all of us.
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Shame must be accepted to be effective.
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Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.
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I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the expense. An amorphous organization with no transparency, unclear lines of responsibility, huge amounts of politics and a great deal of unearned power.