Seth Godin Quotes
Instead of focusing on arguing with people who say no, it might be easier to get near the people who like to say yes.
Quotes to Explore
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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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There's nothing wrong with doing sequels, they're just easier to sell.
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I just always found it easier to be the same guy onstage as you are offstage.
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It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.
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I had an opportunity to play baseball in college, but I just didn't want to go to school. I started focusing on my music and it was game over!
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The less you know about me the easier it is to convince you that I'm the character on screen.
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A lot of us are too busy focusing on what we think people want to hear, as opposed to just saying what's in our hearts.
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On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.
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I think if you make a good movie people walk away arguing.
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It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.
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I like to know for whom I'm writing - it makes the composition easier to do.
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It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission.
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One of the things I learned in 'Slavs!' is that it's much easier to talk about being gay than it is to talk about being a socialist. People are afraid of socialism, and plays that deal with economics are scarier to them.
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People aren't grapes - you can't weigh them in a bunch, but I guess it's easier than dealing with people as individuals.
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There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
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That's what's cool about working with computers. They don't argue, they remember everything, and they don't drink all your beer.
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For it is easier to shout 'Stop', than to do it.
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You might argue that my example is bad because Einstein is dead. But according to physicist Erwin Schrodinger, Einstein is neither dead nor alive until we dig him up and open the casket. If he's alive, he might want his brain back, which I understand is in a Ziplock bag in some guy's freezer. And this is a perfect example of why examples always distract from the main point.
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The hardest thing when you think about focusing. You think focusing is about saying "Yes." No. Focusing is about saying "No." And when you say "No," you piss off people.
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The Bible is not interested in arguing, because if you state a thesis of belief you have already stated it's opposite; if you say, I believe in God, you have already suggested the possibility of not believing in him.
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He causes huge bodies like sun to proclaim His Majesty through His Names the All-Gracious, Great, reciting: ' O Glorious One, O Great One, O Mighty One', while tiny animate creatures like flies and fish proclaim His Mercy, reciting: 'O Gracious One, O Compassionate One, O Generous One
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Instead of focusing on arguing with people who say no, it might be easier to get near the people who like to say yes.
