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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• I can't draw a line between myself and stuff that I do. It's funny, I don't want to sound like it's just about this, but really with everything I do, it's hard for me to take myself out of it.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Funny
  • Sound
  • Stuff

• In short, you can't let the deadline define the mission. The mission has to define the duration.

  

  Richard Holbrooke
  • Mission
  • Define
  • Deadline

• I don't want names, but you have to have bumped into some pretty nasty artists with pretty big chips on their shoulders. I'd like an anecdote about the most obnoxious personality you had the misfortune of working with, albeit as anonymously as you feel comfortable divulging.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Personality
  • Working
  • Artists

• Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • She
  • Fashion
  • Mysterious

• One's own self or material goods, which has more worth? Loss (of self) or possession (of goods), which is the greater evil? He who loves most, spends most, He who hoards much loses much.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Loves
  • Possession
  • Material Goods

• We need to get away from labels. That's the way people talk in Washington, D.C. - through labels, through ideological frames, through partisan frames.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • People
  • Way
  • Away

• [Being judge] is about being honest and giving everybody a fair shot and telling them what you think. Sometimes it's good and sometimes it isn't. It's more important to be honest than say things to make people feel better. I don't think you have to be rude, but I think you have to be honest. But I think it's really important to be specific: Here's what you did that was great and why. And here's what you did that wasn't great and why.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

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

  

  Seth Godin
  • Names
  • Lines
  • Deadline