Seth Godin Quotes
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I think that any time reality doesn't match your expectations, it means that marketing was involved.
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The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else. It might be the competition or a technology or the lousy things that someone did a decade ago. None of it is going to get better as a result of revisiting the grudge.
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Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.
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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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Surprise and delight and connection are remarkable.
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We're better in the rearview mirror than we are at predicting - 'cause you're never going to be right every time. You can handicap it. You can point to certain elements that make it work, and many of those elements come straight out of epidemiology, right?
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At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.
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Choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You’re not born this way, you get this way.
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Way more productive, I think, to push yourself to be more in the world, not to encourage yourself to hide.
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Just because something is easy to measure doesn't mean it's important.
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Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.
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Art is a human act, a generous contribution, something that might not work, and it is intended to change the recipient for the better, often causing a connection to happen.
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Habits are more powerful than fears.
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Products that are remarkable get talked about.
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The weird set an example for the rest of us. They raise the bar. They show us through their actions that in fact we're wired to do the new, not to comply with someone a thousand miles away.
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No one can force you to stand up, speak up and make a difference. But if you back off and play along, please understand that whatever happens happened, at least in part, because you acquiesced.
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The conversation is happening about your brand whether you're a part of it or not.
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We do not need to teach students to embrace the status quo.
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A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.
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There's a big difference between not settling and not starting.