Seth Godin Quotes
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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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When your art fails, make better art.
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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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You want it to be hard. If it's hard, then that means others can't do it easily and you can charge for that value.
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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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You don't need more time in your day. You need to decide.
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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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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.
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In fact, most of the time, people with similar information, similar beliefs and similar apparent choices will choose similar actions. So if you want to know why someone does what they do, start with what they know, what they believe and where they came from. Dismissing actions we don't admire merely because we don't care enough to have empathy is rarely going to help us make the change we seek. It doesn't help us understand, and it creates a gulf that drives us apart.
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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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Every activity worth doing has a learning curve.
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I think "creativity" is better described as failing repeatedly until you get something right.
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Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.
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Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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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 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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You don't need a new plan for next year. You need a commitment.
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A customer is never out of warranty, even if his product is.
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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 job is not the work.
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You can risk being wrong or you can be boring.
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The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
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If you're not proud of where you work, go work somewhere else.
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I do not think you can get rid of the fear... but you can dance with it.