Seth Godin Quotes

You are not your resume, you are your work.

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• You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Good
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• The way I work is by infinitely playing a very simple loop over and over, and then I start layering things.

  

  Washed Out
  • Work
  • Simple
  • Start

• It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Work
  • Real
  • Me

• I hope to work till I'm an old lady.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Lady

• It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Life
  • Work
  • Road

• The key is that I'm trying to keep growing and trying to keep learning and deepen my connection in every way, in my life, in my work. That's what I do when I look at a role.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Work
  • Trying

• The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!

  

  Ina Garten
  • Work
  • Why
  • Pasta

• I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that's the kind of coach I want to be.

  

  Adam Oates
  • Up
  • Work
  • Player

• I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Work
  • Art
  • Business

• I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • Work
  • Age
  • Guy

• The fictive structure, my work, my imagination, my books are about the details, the huge construction about culture, Islamic culture or modern Turkey. They're all intertwined.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Imagination

• Since I was from the theater, that's how I learned how to go through the process of being a character. That's how I learned, and that's what I was comfortable doing. And then, the first feature films, I'm sure I was no fun because I did not want to be spontaneous in that filmic way that really can work for you.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Work
  • Character
  • Fun

• I don't want to name any names, but I've worked on television shows where there's a guy writing for my generation who's, like, 60 - and it doesn't work.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Guy

• When I read the pilot 'for Married with Children', it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... just a self-deprecating kind of guy. He'd come home from work, and the wife would maybe say 'I ran over the dog this morning in the driveway'. And he would say 'Fine, what's for dinner?

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Work
  • Children
  • Home

• But having set myself these goals, I had to work really hard to achieve them.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Goals

• Overall when you work in fashion, you're always in a rush. You're always a little late, always in a hurry. Every single moment's important, so you never have enough time to do what you want to do. It's ridiculous.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • Time
  • Work
  • Important

• It is important to keep the filmmakers interested in you so they can offer you everything and anything. We actors are not given work on the basis of audience poll; the filmmaker will cast you after they see and like your work. It is essential to do different kind of films and not get typecast.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Work
  • Different
  • Important

• Smart authors, faced with storms, chose to create umbrellas. That's why a diverse group of authors banded together to create The Fiction Writer's Co-op, which will work to find innovative ways to promote each other's work and cheer each other on in a very competitive field.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Work
  • Why
  • Together

• There must be a major economic recovery package which puts Americans to work at decent wages.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Work
  • Recovery

• It's a wonderful thing to make work that is unadorned either by context, framing or label, that can exist in the changing conditions of light, weather, wind.

  

  Antony Gormley
  • Work
  • Light
  • Wind

• I have always been the first on the dance floor. Before fame, people thought it made me a good laugh; now, people point and call me an attention seeker! I'm very aware of the way people can view me, but I'm very aware that I have to just enjoy my life.

  

  Jessie J
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Dance has become an exclusionary enterprise. To participate, one must be thinner than thin, of pleasing form, flexible, athletic and young. If you are not all these things, you will be allowed to dance in the privacy of your own living room. You just wouldn't dare to put yourself onstage.

  

  Clive Barnes
  • Dance
  • Privacy
  • Enterprise

• You can't always get what you want.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Want
  • Always
  • Get

• You are not your resume, you are your work.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Work
  • Resume