The problem with taking offense is that it’s really hard to figure out what to do with it after you’re done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears.
SETH GODINIn a race, sooner or later there’s a moment that separates the winner from those who don’t win. That instant is your chance, the moment you’ve been waiting for.
More Seth Godin Quotes
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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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Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.
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Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
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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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Your best customers are worth far more than your average customers.
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When you put your ideas in the world, then, and only then, do you know if they’re real.
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As you’ve probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.
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The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.
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Organizations that destroy the status quo win. Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.
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As long as you want to please everyone, you won’t please anyone.
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The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.
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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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Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.
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Do your art. But don’t wreck your art if it doesn’t lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.
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