Seth Godin Quotes
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But this is a remarkable egg, an egg worth talking about, an egg worth crossing the street for, an egg worth writing about.
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Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
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Your audacious life goals are fabulous. We're proud of you for having them. But it's possible that those goals are designed to distract you from the thing that's really frightening you--the shift in daily habits that would mean a re-invention of how you see yourself.
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It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts.
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Fear is the dream killer, the silent voice that pushes us to lose our passion in a vain attempt to seek safety.
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Flexible in the face of change, resilient in the face of confusion. All of these attributes are choices, not talents, and all of them are available to you.
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Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn't mean mattered.
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People are buying only one thing from you: the way the engagement (hiring you, working with you, dating you, using your product or service, learning from you) makes them feel.
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My problem with the search for the badge of real is that it trades your goals and your happiness for someone else's.
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Be personal. Be relevant. Be specific.
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It's not an accident that successful people read more books.
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The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.
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Life is not about gutting out every situation. It's about identifying opportunity or the lack thereof. If your pride is all that is standing in the way of quitting, quit. The right people won't care and the wrong people don't matter. If you know you're on the right path, persevere though the pain. It will be worth it.
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The market ... demands a signal from you that you're serious, powerful, accepted, and safe.
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It's never too late to start heading in the right direction.
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Incrementalism ceases to be a good strategy when there's a cliff on the route.
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A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, they’re doing work that most any trained person could do.
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Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator... Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does. Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
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Everyone we interact with is changed forever. The only questions are: How will they be different (and how different will they be), and how will we be different (and how different will we be) as a result?
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No more than six words on a slide. Ever. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken.
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Kickstarter isn't a profit center, it's an organizer and an instigator.
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All the good things in my career are a direct descendant of what I did and learned at camp
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Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.
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You don't become indispensable merely because you are different. But the only way to become indispensable is to be different. That's because if you're the same, so are plenty of other people.