Seth Godin Quotes
People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.
Quotes to Explore
-
Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
-
All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.
-
Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.
-
I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
-
You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
-
I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
-
If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
-
And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
-
What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
-
Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
-
People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
-
In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.
-
It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
-
I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
-
I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all these shows where people are trying to do these outrageous stunts, and I thought it would be funny to do all these stunts that aren't outrageous but then act like they are.
-
It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
-
I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.
-
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
-
I don't have any tattoos but I've thought about getting Ernie, from Bert and Ernie, on my earlobe. He made a big impression on me as a kid. And I have pretty big earlobes.
-
People respond to a guy who is trapped and succeeds on some level and fails on another.
-
I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.
-
I've met a lot of big stars who have humility. Sly Stallone is a very humble guy. Robert DeNiro is a really humble guy. Some of the women aren't so humble for some reason. I don't know why.
-
Faith is blind...to impossibilities and deaf to doubt. It listens only to God.
-
People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.
