Seth Godin Quotes
We're often in a hurry to finish. Or in a hurry to close a sale. What happens when we adopt the posture of being in a hurry to be generous? With resources or insight or access or kindness... It's an interesting sort of impatience.
Quotes to Explore
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When I watch cop shows, I really enjoy them because you can really follow the story and get involved, and the characters are always really interesting.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
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I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.
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My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
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I was a top-notch cartoon model for Hanna Barbera, and they made me into a cartoon series called 'Devlin,' which ran for seven years, and I was on lunch pails and coloring books and all of that. It's really interesting being a coloring book when you're young – most kids colored in coloring books, but I made money off coloring books.
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The fashion world is so interesting because it's always changing, but if you know yourself really well, despite of all the changes in the fashion trends, you know how to stay true to yourself.
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When you come across someone colorful and vibrant maybe in the present it isn't so interesting, but, in the past, it sheds a wonderful light onto living life.
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Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.
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You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.
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The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.
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I think that it's going to be interesting to see where Beyonce's career goes.
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When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.
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Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles.
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If you put a much older woman in 'Doctor Who,' they can identify with it. I think it's quite an interesting concept, and if you remember things like 'Grimm's Fairytales,' the older woman is often the villainess, often the terrifying figure - why I do not know, but often she is. I think it's an idea to be exploited.
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It's sort of interesting how, when you get older, things that were once so important sort of fall away.
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On a personal basis, when I decided to become a writer, about the last reason I did it was because I thought I'd meet interesting people and make new friends. But that has turned out to be the very best part.
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From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.
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Why does it have to be politics? Is there a dynamism to that world and a theoretical capacity to do things that draws many talented people? Absolutely. Are there other ways to be involved and lead an interesting life? Of course.
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I believe that entrepreneurs play an unmatched role and the accelerating pace of innovation is transforming the face of global challenges. You must think about the solution differently when you're trying to impact 1 billion people rather than affecting 1 million people.
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I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
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When George W. Bush was president, his daddy was raising money for the Bush library. I thought that was fine. When Bob Dole was Majority Leader, Elizabeth Dole was the president of American Red Cross. I didn't say anything.
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I think the love between a child and parent is wonderful. You know, Mei... I haven't seen my mother for over two years. I used to live with her... but now I live with my father. I used to be sad and wonder why it happened... but parents have a lot of things they have to deal with too. I saw how they were suffering... and I know they both love me a lot. You can't let loneliness harden your heart. Mei, you know... Misuzu loves you, don't you?
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We're often in a hurry to finish. Or in a hurry to close a sale. What happens when we adopt the posture of being in a hurry to be generous? With resources or insight or access or kindness... It's an interesting sort of impatience.
