Seth Godin Quotes
How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?
Quotes to Explore
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I think there's a very fine line. I listen to their advice. I take their medical expertise very seriously. But then I also, the reason I am where I am, the reason I play the way I play, is because I push beyond normal.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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I'm not a babysitter.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
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The brain, which is plastic when young, must be exposed to certain sights early in life, or it will remain blind to those sights forever.
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The trend in entrepreneurship is up, but an entrepreneur's ability to hire is down.
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The mind is just another muscle.
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I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.
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It's nice to be in a creative world that's kind of isolated, but you can get led astray down some pathway while you're recording that you might not like later. And there's a lot of time to get in your own head and stay there.
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the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.
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We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.
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If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all. And if you do have to say it, make it really funny so I can screenshot it and save it for later.
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How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?
