Seth Godin Quotes
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Popular is not the same important, or often, not the same as good.
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Great work is the result of seeking out tension, not avoiding it.
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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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The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.
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'Good enough' stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?
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Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn't be done.
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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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It's not an accident that successful people read more books.
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Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.
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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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I learned that a long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge.
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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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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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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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It's never too late to start heading in the right direction.
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If you demand that everything that happens be something you are adequately prepared for, I wonder if you’ve chosen never to leap in ways that we need you to leap. Once we embrace this chasm, then for the things for which we can never be prepared, we are of course, always prepared.
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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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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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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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The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified... and pick yourself.
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As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter.
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Great work is always shunned at first.
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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.