Seth Godin Quotes

Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.

Seth Godin

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• The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Important
  • Service

• I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • People
  • Writing
  • Political

• I've done loads of things people have never seen - dramas on BBC4 and plays upstairs at the Royal Court and the Bush - and because I didn't go to drama school, they gave me an education.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • People
  • School
  • Done

• Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • People
  • Reality
  • Vision

• People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Me
  • Written

• A lot of people put pressure on me, but I don't think I feel that type of pressure. It is more of a good thing that people are trying to do that.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Good
  • Children

• My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Dad
  • Understand

• When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist because you've crushed anyone's desire to do the right thing with all these incentives.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • People
  • Desire
  • Do The Right Thing

• My father came from nothing, so he believed that people could do anything if they worked hard enough. I think he liked that I chose to be an actor. Both he and my mom were totally supportive.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Father
  • Mom

• I learned how to handle myself in the kitchen - where to stand and how to be out of people's way and how to function like a machine.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • People
  • Myself
  • Kitchen

• While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • School
  • Money
  • Failure

• I did four movies where I gained, like, fifty pounds. I had curly hair, and I had all of this facial hair. I had put on all this weight for these movies, and I did four or five of them back-to-back. Then I cut the weight and I got fit again. I cut my beard and I took away the mustache, and people were like, 'What are you doing?'

  

  A. J. Bowen
  • People
  • Hair
  • Beard

• During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • People
  • Women
  • America

• When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • People
  • Service
  • Construction

• A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment.

  

  Vesta Williams
  • People
  • Black
  • Me

• Occasionally I talk with people who see doctors as people who do nothing but give of themselves and never receive from anyone else – especially not from their patients. That is totally false. The longer I remain in my profession, the more I realize how much I receive from those who come to me for help.

  

  Ben Carson
  • People
  • Help

• Traditions are the inventions of people who mean to routinely put love and comfort and meaning into their lives and in the lives of those they live with.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • People
  • Live

• You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Important
  • Real
  • Game

• My aunt Caroline was really a character. She lived and worked in my grandfather's old house and even wore some of his clothes.

  

  Jamie Wyeth
  • She
  • Character
  • House

• I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Time
  • Music
  • Science

• I get little kids who recognize me from 'Mary Poppins,' and it just delights me because it's our third generation.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Kids

• The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Humor

• Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • School
  • Easier