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

• Right. I’ve been missing Nutty McFang anyway.” “Stop making up names for him.” “What about Count Crackula?” “Just stop.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Stop
  • Missing

• 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

• I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • Reality
  • Respect
  • Economic

• 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

• Beyond 100,000 lines of code, you should probably be coding in Ada.

  

  P. J. Plauger
  • Should
  • Lines
  • Ada

• 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

• The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Any fame is a by-product of making something that means something. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a sh*t.

  

  Banksy
  • Time
  • Mean
  • Famous

• 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

• Turkeys know their names, come when you call, and are totally affectionate. They're better than teenagers.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Names
  • Affectionate
  • Turkeys

• I started out playing big bands shows and different things. I was with several different small bands and groups, doing comedy and singing, emceeing, and I got a break with a very big star of the late fifties whose name was Tommy Sands.

  

  Hal Blaine
  • Different
  • Small
  • Comedy

• And I don't want you thinking that my girlfriend is a bad person. She is an amazing woman, the fact that I only have seven stories about her in eight years, says a lot. You know, don't get me wrong, five of them happened this year, but that's still way below the bar, you know what I am saying.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Bad

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

  

  Seth Godin
  • Names
  • Lines
  • Deadline