Seth Godin Quotes
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Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn't mean mattered.
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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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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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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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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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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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The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else.
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You are not your resume, you are your work.
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Be personal. Be relevant. Be specific.
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It's never too late to start heading in the right direction.
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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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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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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 you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons.
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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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The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.
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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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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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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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It's human nature to quit when it hurts. But it's that reflex that creates scarcity.
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Tell your lizard (brain) to shut up.
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Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn't be done.
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The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.
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'Good enough' stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?