So much easier to aim for the smallest possible audience, not the largest, to build long-term value among a trusted, delighted tribe, to create work that matters and stands the test of time.
SETH GODINIn a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to store it away until after the race is over. Sure, he’s tired. Everyone is. That’s not the point. The point is to run.
More Seth Godin Quotes
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The enemy of creativity… is fear. We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.
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Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
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Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.
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You are not your resume, you are your work.
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Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.
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Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.
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Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
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If you’re not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better.
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Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
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We fail when we give up too soon.
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Make more decisions. That’s the only way to get better at it.
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Either you defend the status quo, or you invent the future.
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Art isn’t only a painting. Art is anything that is creative, passionate and personal. Art is the unique work of a human being created to touch another. Art is created to have an impact, to change someone else.
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One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you’re in the room… Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you’re not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.
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How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?
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