Seth Godin Quotes

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

Seth Godin

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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

• What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Person
  • Look
  • Ability

• 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

• I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?

  

  Bill Gates
  • Life
  • Money
  • Ability

• The art and science of memory is about developing the capacity to quickly create images that link disparate ideas. Creativity is the ability to form similar connections between disparate images and to create something new and hurl it into the future so it becomes a poem, or a building, or a dance, or a novel. Creativity is, in a sense, future memory.

  

  Joshua Foer
  • Art
  • Memories
  • Creativity

• I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Up
  • Good
  • She

• I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Fear
  • Myself
  • Goddess

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

  

  Seth Godin
  • Ability
  • Wells