Seth Godin Quotes

Don't wait to be picked. Pick yourself.

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• Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model - a superhero, if you like - who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle - then they would be motivated to move more.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Up
  • Children
  • Age

• I've never had someone pick outfits for me. Almost everything I get is from Goodwill.

  

  Carla Gallo
  • Pick
  • Good Will
  • Outfits

• A chef and a restaurateur are different jobs: One is about pleasing people with what's on the plate; the other is about understanding the market. I'm a chef, but I think I'm a savvy businessperson, too.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • People
  • Different
  • Understanding

• I don't have much of a wish list, but I'm dying to work with Erykah Badu. That's pretty much my dream collaboration.

  

  Kaytranada
  • Work
  • Pretty
  • Dream

• We must keep the promises and commitments we've made to our military veterans by ensuring needed services and care are always available and delivered in a timely fashion.

  

  Elise Stefanik
  • Fashion
  • Military

• The Big Chill is one of those things that everybody can identify with. Between eight characters, they can pick somebody who's somewhat like them.

  

  Tom Berenger
  • Identify
  • Characters
  • Pick

• Make us laugh and you can pick all pockets.

  

  Clemence Dane
  • Laugh
  • Make
  • Pockets

• If your God is going to drown the world; if your God is going to bring a flood, then why don't you pick a different God?

  

  Anne Provoost
  • World
  • God
  • Pick

• Find a business mentor. Connect with others who are successful in other lines of business. Bounce ideas off them, pick their brains. Maybe they can re-write a proposal for you.

  

  Cory Trepanier
  • Business
  • Successful
  • Mentor

• Theater is certainly - is my first love, if I had to pick.

  

  Joshua Henry
  • Theater
  • Pick
  • First Love

• I used to be a retailer, and I find it discouraging when somebody comes in and they pick something up and they say, 'Now if you'll sell it to me without the sales tax, I'll buy it.

  

  Michael Enzi
  • Sales
  • Tax
  • Pick

• Suffering makes you deep. Travel makes you broad. In case I get my pick, I'd rather travel.

  

  Judith Viorst
  • Suffering
  • Travel
  • Pick

• Your sound is in your hands as much as anything. It's the way you pick, and the way you hold the guitar, more than it is the amp or the guitar you use.

  

  Stevie Ray Vaughan
  • Sound
  • Guitar
  • Pick

• Our players are mad, but it's good mad.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Good
  • Mad
  • Players

• There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Knowledge
  • Desire
  • Purpose

• I knew I wanted to become an actor when I was 7 years old. My dad was working with Alfred Hitchcock, my mom was working with Martin Scorsese - and it was the great summer of my childhood.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Great
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Life
  • Time
  • Man

• Debate about the causes and consequences of climate change and the policy positions taken in response to it should be encouraged, not silenced.

  

  Luther Strange
  • Taken

• Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun.... there are millions of suns left, You shall no longer take things at second or third hand.... nor look through the eyes of the dead.... nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Earth
  • Books
  • Dead

• I've gotten to work with some great people. I've been really lucky.

  

  Corey Haim
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I was at the breakfast table this morning and I read in the newspaper that more and more adults are living at home with their parents. That surprised me, I was like Mom did you read this?

  

  Brian Regan
  • Home
  • Morning
  • Parent

• Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world.

  

  Morarji Desai
  • World
  • Passion
  • Quality

• Anyone who assumes that this country is standing still is not a good American, or rather, he is an apathetic and dead one and makes no contribution to the society.

  

  Sidney Buchman
  • American
  • Society
  • Contribution

• Don't wait to be picked. Pick yourself.

  

  Seth Godin
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