Seth Godin Quotes
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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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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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You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.
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If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.
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It's not an accident that successful people read more books.
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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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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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It's never too late to start heading in the right direction.
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'Good enough' stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?
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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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Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.
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Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.
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You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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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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Great work is always shunned at first.
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Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn't be done.
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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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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.
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Kickstarter isn't a profit center, it's an organizer and an instigator.
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The sound of a small bell during a dark night, is louder than the din of traffic outside your window during rush hour. Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.
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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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After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.
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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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Be personal. Be relevant. Be specific.