Seth Godin Quotes

Deadlines have a lousy name. Call them live-lines instead. That´t what they are.

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• My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Problem
  • Right
  • Names

• I've always been into older homes, even if I have to refurbish or remodel or raise roof lines or knock out walls.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Always
  • Lines
  • Walls

• Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Guy
  • You
  • Acting

• Dream up big, hairy, audacious goals that you are passionate about and pursue them relentlessly. You have to begin with the end goal in mind, knowing that a goal is a dream with a deadline.

  

  Clay Clark
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Dream

• If there's a deadline, I work late. If not, I like to have normal hours, and get up early and work. When things are going well, I hate to quit. And then I'll work 'till exhausted.

  

  Dave Brubeck
  • Up
  • Work
  • Hate

• Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Pay
  • Lines
  • Misdeeds

• Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Lines
  • Circles
  • Vocabulary

• We thought about switching every day and creating new lines but then we decided not to, ... The whole idea here was the introduction of some concepts of play. Rather then have them worrying about adjusting to new guys every day, we wanted them to concentrate and focus on trying to absorb the system we want to play.

  

  Pat Quinn
  • Trying
  • Play
  • Focus

• Jesus has given you the right to use His name. That name can break the power of disease, the power of the adversary. That name can stop disease and failure from reigning over you. There is no disease that has ever come to man which this name cannot destroy.

  

  E. W. Kenyon
  • Men
  • Power
  • Stop

• Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Money
  • Lines
  • Sensitivity

• One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Remember

• Babbage ... gave the name to the [Cambridge] Analytical Society, which he stated was formed to advocate 'the principles of pure d-ism as opposed to the dot-age of the university.'

  

  W. W. Rouse Ball
  • Age
  • Society
  • Science

• When it comes to immigration, I have actually put more money, under my administration, into border security than any other administration previously. We've got more security resources at the border - more National Guard, more border guards, you name it - than the previous administration. So we've ramped up significantly the issue of border security.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Money
  • Immigration

• When I ran for the U.S. Senate the assumption was that anyone's name that was close to "Osama" doesn't stand a chance. So if somebody thought that tacking on "Hussein" in there would be a killer, then I think they underestimate the American people and the seriousness of the problems we face.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Thinking
  • American

• Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Way
  • Deadline
  • Finishing

• Hold your own. Know your name. And go your own way. And everything will be fine.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Way
  • Knows
  • Names

• Writers who drew, they all seemed to draw the same way. They managed to keep that childlike creativity in their line.

  

  Al Hirschfeld
  • Way
  • Creativity
  • Lines

• Viewers all over the world, my prayer partners, whatever situation you are in, be delivered in the mighty name of Jesus Christ! Those who wait upon the LORD shall be delivered!

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • World
  • Jesus
  • Prayer

• I think when we stop putting labels and start worrying more about the performance, that's when you're able to cross over and make yourself a household name and go everywhere.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Thinking
  • Stop
  • Worry

• This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Kind
  • Feels

• How much that the world calls selfishness is only generosity with narrow walls,--a too exclusive solicitude to maintain a wife in luxury, or make one's children rich.

  

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • World
  • Children
  • Wife

• We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • President
  • Scary
  • Dumb

• A more or less accurate measure of class in America is TV size: the bigger your TV, the lower your class.

  

  Paul Fussell
  • Class
  • Size
  • TV set

• Deadlines have a lousy name. Call them live-lines instead. That´t what they are.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Names
  • Lines
  • Deadline