Seth Godin Quotes

Your success is no longer about your ability to do what you are told, and do it well.

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• I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Ability
  • Greatest
  • Mental

• The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Feelings
  • Ability
  • Distance

• If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Way
  • Ability
  • Gentleman

• Yogurt sauce, as you may have noticed by now, is a regular presence in my recipes - that's because it has the ability to round up so many flavours and textures like no other component does.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • May
  • You

• The bowlers I respected or feared or rated were not the ones who gave me lip or stared at me or abused me. More the ones who, at any stage of the game, when had they had the ball in hand, they were going to be at me, and they were going to have the skill and the fitness and the ability to be aggressive.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Ability
  • Aggressive
  • Respected

• I was two when we left Indiana, and I don't really remember it that well.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Remember
  • Two
  • Wells

• Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera are doing pretty well at getting noticed - a lot of people are doing pretty well at it. But you wonder whether they'll last, because many of them don't have the ability to get an audience to love them. You say, "That's a fabulous body" or "I like that song"; you don't say, "I love them because I know them." You can't know them.

  

  Bette Midler
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Song

• Success means different things to different people. To me, the greatest quality of successful human beings is the ability to love.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Different
  • Success

• The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Time
  • Business
  • Ability

• Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it.

  

  Louis Nizer
  • Knowledge
  • Education
  • Ability

• I basically don't do that well with children, although my sister says I'm a great aunt.

  

  Ann B. Davis
  • Great
  • Children
  • Sister

• As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Might
  • Wells
  • Pops

• You cannot increase the quality or quantity of your achievement or performance except to the degree in which you increase your ability to use your time effectively.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Time
  • Quality
  • Ability

• It's just learning the game more. Just trying to approach it in a John Stockton-type of way, to where you don't play so much with your physical ability all the time. You have to think the game out a lot more. That's where I'm a lot better. I know the game a lot more. I see things before they happen a lot.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Game

• Entrepreneurial leadership requires the ability to move quickly when opportunity presents itself.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Opportunity
  • Moving
  • Leadership

• It's really cool to have the ability to try on being different people and to explore some parts of yourself because you get to know yourself better. You get to know parts of yourself that you haven't met before.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • People
  • Different
  • Cool

• Peace and Blessings manifest with every lesson learned. If your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Knowledge
  • Peace
  • Wealth

• Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Risk
  • Wells
  • Philosophical

• Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • World
  • Science
  • Human

• Never put the story in the lead. Let 'em have a hot shot of ambiguity right between the eyes.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Eye
  • Hot
  • Ambiguity

• The general verdict among the German generals I interrogated in 1945 was that Field-Marshal von Manstein had proved the ablest commander in their Army, and the man they had most desired to become its Commander-in-Chief. It is very clear that he had a superb sense of operational possibilities and equal mastery in the conduct of operations, together with a greater grasp of the potentialities of mechanized forces than any other commander who had not been trained in the tank arm. In sum, he had military genius.

  

  Erich von Manstein
  • Military
  • Genius
  • Possibility

• There's so many gay rappers... They probably dis me cause I'm the straight one.

  

  Chino XL
  • Gay
  • Rap
  • Causes

• If the condition of Government stands still, it just makes no sense and must die, so, therefore, the improvement within that democracy must be the greater and greater equalization of rights and opportunities to the people as those people grow up.

  

  Sidney Buchman
  • People
  • Government
  • Opportunities

• Your success is no longer about your ability to do what you are told, and do it well.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Ability
  • Wells