Seth Godin Quotes
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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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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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'Good enough' stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?
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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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This might end up in crying. If you're not prepared to cry about it, I'm not sure you're making art. And if you're not prepared to dance in anticipation, you're definitely not making art.
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Great work is the result of seeking out tension, not avoiding it.
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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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One key to learning and success is the willingness to try something new, and feel momentarily incompetent.
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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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Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn't be done.
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It's not an accident that successful people read more books.
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Most people are searching for a path to success that is both easy and certain. Most paths are neither.
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It's never too late to start heading in the right direction.
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Great work is always shunned at first.
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Repeating easy tasks again and again gets you not very far. Attacking only steep cliffs where no progress is made isn’t particularly effective either. No, the best path is an endless series of difficult (but achievable) hills.
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Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.
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Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no.
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Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.
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You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some action.
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The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.
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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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I was amplifying the negative at the expense of the positive, not to serve any useful function, not to make my writing better, but to destroy it. The lizard brain, so attuned to people laughing behind our backs, was on high alert for this sort of criticism and would do anything it could to stop me from writing again. I haven't sought out and read a review or a tweet since.
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Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.
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And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.