Seth Godin Quotes
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Don't have any meetings about your web strategy. Just do stuff. First you have to fail, then you can improve.
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Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.
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It's never too late to start heading in the right direction.
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What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It's about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it's something that people have wanted forever.
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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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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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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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Be personal. Be relevant. Be specific.
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Every voice doesn't matter--only the voices that move your idea forward, that make it better, that make you better, that make it more likely you will ship work that benefits your tribe.
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A well-defined backup plan is sabotage waiting to happen. Why push through the dip, why take the risk, why blow it all when there's the comfortable alternative instead? The people who break through usually have nothing to lose, and they almost never have a backup plan.
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The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else.
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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.
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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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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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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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If it were any other way, it would be easy. And if it were any other way, everyone would do it and your work would ultimately be devalued. The yin and yang are clear: without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely it would be worth the journey. Persist.
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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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If you have no wish, how can it possibly come true?
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Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn't mean mattered.
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One key to learning and success is the willingness to try something new, and feel momentarily incompetent.
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Great work is always shunned at first.
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'Good enough' stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?
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You are not your resume, you are your work.
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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.