My mother is an incredibly beautiful woman who has laughed at every single thing my father's ever said. At a young age, my brother and I understood that if you can make girls laugh, you can punch well above your weight class.


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It seems obvious that if a species has the brainpower for speech, along with the sort of appendages ...
SETH SHOSTAK
Before I discovered CrossFit, I was really just doing regular bodybuilding, didn't understand at...
SETH ROLLINS
Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told....
SETH GODIN
'The Brady Bunch' asks nothing of you as a viewer. Sometimes is just what the doctor ordered...
SETH MACFARLANE
Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the t...
SETH GODIN
A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an id...
SETH GODIN
The number one thing to steal from your competitors: Wisdom.
SETH GODIN
I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera.
SETH MACFARLANE
My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improve...
SETH GODIN
One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabular...
SETH GODIN
At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.
SETH GODIN
The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following...
SETH GODIN
True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will...
SETH BROWN
God save us from people who mean well.
VIKRAM SETH
If it looks like shit, smells like shit, and feels like shit, you don't have to actually eat it to k...
SETH EISENBERG
Rules are just helpful guidelines for stupid people who can't make up their own minds.
SETH HOFFMAN
Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pre...
SETH GODIN
And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change p...
SETH GODIN
Admittedly, it would take industrial-grade chutzpah and a massive dose of malevolence for anyone to ...
SETH SHOSTAK
When I graduated high school, nearly a half-million people subscribed to 'Popular Electronics...
SETH SHOSTAK
It's hard to imagine anything more interesting than learning how we're woven into the enormo...
SETH SHOSTAK
My styles range quite a bit. I go for an all-around kind of fan. Never wanted to be the dude that co...
SETH ROLLINS
Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives ra...
VIKRAM SETH
Today's voguish threats, including climate change, population growth, massive war, and resource ...
SETH SHOSTAK
It's worth noting that invoking God as the entity who set our universe in motion isn't contr...
SETH SHOSTAK
The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.
SETH GODIN
I mean, we make a 15-minute show that's incredibly silly, even though all of our scenic designer...
SETH GREEN
At one point, I was hell-bent on being a Disney animator, and sort of got over that in college and w...
SETH MACFARLANE
A century ago, scientists believed there was only one obvious stomping ground for alien biology in o...
SETH SHOSTAK
Working with Al Pacino was an amazing experience. He's such an amazing guy. He's an incredib...
SETH NUMRICH
I don't make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I'm adding something...
SETH ROGEN
Are two eyes, four appendages and an upright posture really essential for any creature that can ace ...
SETH SHOSTAK
For just a few dollars a dose, vaccines save lives and help reduce poverty. Unlike medical treatment...
SETH BERKLEY
The thing to keep in mind is that we're still in the very early days when it comes to the search...
SETH SHOSTAK
'What was there before the Big Bang?' That's a question that both kids and adults love t...
SETH SHOSTAK
The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense...
SETH LOW
You can't stop wars to build tertiary teaching hospitals, but you can say, 'Let's stop f...
SETH BERKLEY
I love science, and I believe in it. I have a faith that science can solve problems and make the wor...
SETH BERKLEY
When it comes to providing aid, developing innovations, and making bold steps that change the course...
SETH BERKLEY
Investments in immunization yield a rate of return on a par with educating our children - and higher...
SETH BERKLEY
History will not judge HIV/AIDS kindly... the harshest words will be reserved for how the world resp...
SETH BERKLEY
I was a serial monogamist.
SETH BERKLEY