Seth Godin Quotes
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We notice what we choose to notice.
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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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Dreamers don't have special genes. They find circumstances that amplify their dreams.
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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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Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.
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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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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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The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.
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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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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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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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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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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 problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else.
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The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity.
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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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Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can.
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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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Why do we value leadership, connection and grace? Because it's scarce, and that scacity creates value.
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Tell your lizard (brain) to shut up.
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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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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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Lack of resources (payroll), time and competing priorities are why so many nonprofits haven't done well. It's that simple.
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Mass attention is almost unattainable and it's not clear that you want it.