Seth Godin Quotes
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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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We need to care enough to connect, to put ourselves at emotional risk and play one note worth hearing.
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I don't think we have any choice. I think we have an obligation to change the rules, to raise the bar, to play a different game, and to play it better than anyone has any right to believe is possible.
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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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Be personal. Be relevant. Be specific.
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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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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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Turn strangers into friends. Turn friends into donors. And then do the most important job: Turn your donors into fundraisers.
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Why do we value leadership, connection and grace? Because it's scarce, and that scacity creates value.
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Dreamers don't have special genes. They find circumstances that amplify their dreams.
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The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.
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Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can.
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People are buying only one thing from you: the way the engagement (hiring you, working with you, dating you, using your product or service, learning from you) makes them feel.
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I've never once met a successful blogger who questioned the personal value of what she did.
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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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The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else.
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The resistance is the voice in your head telling you to use bullets in your PowerPoint slides...It’s the voice that tells you to leave controversial ideas out of the paper you’re writing, because the teacher won’t like them. The resistance pushes relentlessly for you to fit in.
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The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity.
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Learning is not done to you, it is something you choose to do.
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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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You dont need to convince everyone. All you need to do is motivate people who choose to follow you.
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For most modern marketers, quantity isn't the point. What matters is to matter. Lives changed. Work that made an actual difference. Connection.
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Mass attention is almost unattainable and it's not clear that you want it.
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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.