You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.
SETH GODINSocial 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.
More Seth Godin Quotes
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I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
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Keep starting until you finish.
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Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.
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You don’t win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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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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Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
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Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.
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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.
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Make a decision. It doesn’t have to be a wise decision or a perfect one. Just make one.
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Your generosity is more important than your perfection.
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Defending mediocrity is exhausting.
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You don’t make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.
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Just as we don’t spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their poetry, the same is true for most bloggers.
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Denigrating art you don’t understand doesn’t hurt the art – it reveals something about your willingness to learn.
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Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person’s shoes. There’s no rational, universal course because individuals have different goals, different worldviews and different experiences.
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