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Doing Quotes by Seth Godin
- The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.
- The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.
- 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…
- The most successful givers aren’t doing it because they’re being told to. They do it because doing it is fun. It gives them joy.
- The challenge is simple: Quitting when you hit the Dip is a bad idea. If the journey you started was worth doing, then quitting when…
- The goal, then, isn't to draw some positioning charts and announce that you have differentiated your product. No, the opportunity is to actually create something…
- The desire that we have to do something that’s never been done before means that the people who are around you generally will not encourage…
- I have something to say. I know how to do something. I’m doing it. If you want me to do it with you, raise your…
- Art is the act of doing work that matters while dancing with the voice in your head that screams for you to stop.
- The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.
- Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.
- Doing justice to the work is your task, not setting a world record.
- Loving what you do is almost as important as doing what you love, especially if you need to make a living at it.
- Take the long way. Do the hard work, consistently and with generosity and transparency. And then you won't waste time doing it over.
- A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.
- Every activity worth doing has a learning curve.
- Studying entrepreneurshi p without doing it... is like studying the appreciation of music without listening to it.
- The joy of art is particularly sweet, though, because it carries with it the threat of rejection, of failure, and of missed connections. It's precisely…
- The opportunity is not in being momentarily popular with the anonymous masses. It's in being missed when you're gone, in doing work that matters to…
- By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.
- The one path that never works is the most common one: doing nothing at all.
- If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far…
- In the long run, doing work that's important leads to more happiness than doing work that's merely profitable.
- Excellence isn’t about working extra hard to do what you’re told. It’s about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.
- The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we'll ever get paid back appropriately.
More Doing Quotes
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied… — Karen Armstrong
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing… — Neil Armstrong
- We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well… — Neil Armstrong
- I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my… — Arthur Ashe
- Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. — Arthur Ashe
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov