Seth Godin Quotes

There are lots of good reasons to abandon a project. Having a little competition is not one of them.

Seth Godin

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• We all have stories for a reason, and if we keep them to ourselves, I don't feel they would help anybody.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Help
  • Reason
  • Feel

• A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Reason
  • King
  • Lion

• Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Reason
  • Nothing
  • Divine

• I desperately need the love of complete strangers. That's one reason I overtip. I love when skycaps, waiters, and valets are happy to see me.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Reason

• Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Reason
  • Step
  • Where

• Sometimes friends move apart from each other for whatever reason.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Friends
  • Reason
  • Sometimes

• Every single note on this album is there for a reason.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Single
  • Reason
  • Note

• I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is Liberty's work, and 'Down with Authority' her war-cry.

  

  Benjamin Tucker
  • Work
  • War
  • Opportunity

• Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

  

  Aristotle
  • Knowledge
  • Reason
  • Fact

• The benefit is competition, the thrill of playing in the Olympics, being an Olympian, playing against the best.

  

  Joe Sakic
  • Competition

• Sisters, to me, are fascinating because it is a unique connection of the coming together of connection and competition. The fact that you have these age differences is a built-in power struggle, and the fact that you're all trying to get attention and resources from the same parents creates competition.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Trying
  • Power
  • Together

• My father was a great inspiration, and there was a bit of competition between us. He'd work in his studio, and I'd work in my space, but the door was always half open.

  

  Jamie Wyeth
  • Work
  • Great
  • Father

• Our employers today face numerous challenges and stiff competition from businesses all over the world.

  

  Jim Gerlach
  • World
  • Today
  • Competition

• I think in terms of family, in terms of relationships, in terms of work, competition to be the favorite, to be the noticed, to be the one - I don't know if it exists for all personalities, but I know for sure it did with me.

  

  Marcia Gay Harden
  • Work
  • Family
  • Competition

• A lot of my friends aren't working, especially since fewer films are being made now and there's more competition.

  

  Lily Collins
  • Friends
  • Competition

• There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Love
  • Reason
  • For Her

• The 20th century was all about hierarchies: if you want to create something, if you want to start a country, create a product, whatever it is. Your goal is to create a highly efficient hierarchical model, scale it, because that's what the competition's doing.

  

  Chris Fussell
  • Country
  • Model
  • Competition

• As much as I very much want audiences to watch FX's carefully curated and highly contextualized television shows, I'm now glad when anyone takes the time to watch even our competition's television series, as long as it demands their sustained attention and challenges their knee-jerk perceptions.

  

  John Landgraf
  • Time
  • Long
  • Attention

• Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.

  

  Vanity
  • Light

• The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late

  

  H. Rider Haggard
  • Great
  • Fate

• To make a movie about someone who is thinking and writing is scary. There's no big love story, no action, no drama. It's not an easy task.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Movie

• There are lots of good reasons to abandon a project. Having a little competition is not one of them.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Reason
  • Competition
  • Projects