Seth Godin Quotes
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Taking delight in the journey takes confidence. It pushes the envelope of design.
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Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
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What if getting bigger isn't the point? What if you merely got better?
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Human beings, thanks to culture and genetics, are inclined to be pessimistic, fearful, skeptical and believers in conspiracy theories. We also don't like change.
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The less people know, the more they yell.
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If you have a book to write, write it. If you want to record an album, record it. No need to wait for someone in a cubicle halfway across the country to decide if you're worthy.
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The enemy of creativity... is fear. We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.
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Persistent people are able to visualize the idea of light at the end of the tunnel when others can't see it
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All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works.
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People get good gigs because they stand up....You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.
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Permission marketing turns strangers into friends and friends into loyal customers. It's not just about entertainment - it's about education. Permission marketing is curriculum marketing.
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If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.
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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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It's not an accident that successful people read more books.
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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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So sure, start with a slogan. But don't bother wasting any time on it if you're merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead.
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Kickstarter isn't a profit center, it's an organizer and an instigator.
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The future of marketing is leadership
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In a race, sooner or later there's a moment that separates the winner from those who don't win. That instant is your chance, the moment you've been waiting for.
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Great work is the result of seeking out tension, not avoiding it.
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I find that I have about six bloggable ideas a day. I also find that writing twice as long a post doesn't increase communication, it usually decreases it. And finally, I found that people get antsy if there are unread posts in their queue.
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The reason social media is so difficult for most organizations: It’s a process, not an event.
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The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.
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All the good things in my career are a direct descendant of what I did and learned at camp