Seth Godin Quotes

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• The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.

  

  Otto Rank
  • Soul
  • Creativity
  • Meaning

• If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Teach
  • Meaning
  • Formula

• If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Want
  • Me
  • Celebrity

• Repetition creates pattern. If I have a hundred of these, a hundred of those, it doesn't make any difference what these and those are. If I can repeat anything, I have the possibility of a pattern from hickory nuts and chicken eggs, shards of glass, branches. It doesn't make any difference.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Difference
  • Chicken
  • Nuts

• We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Children
  • Difference
  • Skin

• Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Religion
  • Search
  • Meaning

• I'm a comedian who happens to be Latino. What's the difference? The difference is, my special will air on Comedy Central, not Telemundo.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Comedy
  • Air
  • Difference

• I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually; you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Women
  • Money
  • True

• I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Work
  • Mother
  • Connect

• The main distinction for fresh chillies is whether they are red or green, the difference being one of ripeness.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Red
  • Green
  • Difference

• When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Book
  • Eyes
  • Meaning

• I am still fairly new to the whole social media thing - I am definitely tweeting and Facebooking. It's a nice way to connect with fans.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Fans
  • Social Media
  • Connect

• Most of the names in my books have secondary meaning. Sometimes they foreshadow; sometimes they tell you about the character's origin or back story.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Character
  • Story
  • Meaning

• I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Think
  • Color
  • Difference

• I think there's a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.

  

  Edmund H. North
  • Think
  • Risk
  • Difference

• Shame on me if I don't try to do more with what I have. It would be... a terrible thing to waste this opportunity to try to make a difference.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Opportunity
  • Me
  • Difference

• A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Nature
  • Need
  • Meaning

• I grew up as a child actress, not a child star. I was an actress - big difference.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Up
  • Star
  • Child

• While I'm frustrated at the amount I'm expected to take on in the present, the 1950s woman was frustrated by being excluded - not being allowed to take things on at all.

  

  Sara Sheridan
  • Expected
  • Amount
  • Frustrated

• A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Money
  • Happy
  • Forgotten

• For every child of an illegal immigrant who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert

  

  Michael C. Burgess
  • Children
  • Size
  • Comment

• In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Long
  • Challenge
  • Place

• Up to 90% of the total decline in the death rate of children between 1860-1965 because of whooping cough, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and measles occurred before the introduction of immunisations and antibiotics.

  

  Archie Kalokerinos
  • Children
  • Death
  • Antibiotics

• Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Difference
  • Meaning
  • Connect