Seth Godin Quotes

People get good gigs because they stand up....You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

Seth Godin

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• I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.

  

  Nas
  • Up
  • Good
  • Love

• Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• My mum was a dancer. She would tour the world with a group, and she had me in a dance class when I was still in a nappy. They told her to come back when I could walk.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • World
  • She
  • Dance

• Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • America
  • War
  • Military

• I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute.

  

  Zoe Lofgren
  • Law
  • Try
  • Forward

• Yeah, leading an examined life, I always say, is a pain in the ass. It adds an element of complexity to business that most businessmen don't want to hear about. They just want to call a fabric manufacturer, and say, "Hey, give us 10,000 yards of shirting."

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Life
  • Business
  • Pain

• Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Letters

• Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • School
  • Why
  • Nature

• I did not understand the differences between Catholic and Protestant until I was an adult.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Catholic
  • Differences
  • Adults

• The advantage of Fashion is that there is no racism

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Fashion
  • Racism
  • Advantage

• We also knew [ me and Ewan McGregor] that, on a practical level, if there was going to be that much sex in the film [Young Adam] - which there clearly had to be because sex is the meat and potatoes of the thing - it had to be varied for the audience, because it's important to keep the audience living in it.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Important
  • Film
  • Audience

• It is fairer to tax people on what they extract from the economy, as roughly measured by their consumption, than to tax them on what they produce for the economy, as roughly measured by their income.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • People
  • Economy
  • Income

• Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Experience
  • Weapon
  • Ornament

• Well, "disgusting" doesn't refer to the books but to the subjective reaction of the person making the complaint. I don't think that anything is disgusting per se. These words "disgusting" and "filthy," etc., have prevented us from undertaking any scientific experimentation in sexual matters.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Disgusting

• We ought at least, from prudence, never to speak of ourselves, because that is a subject on which we may be sure that other people's views are never in accordance with our own.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Views
  • Prudence
  • Accordance

• Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Philosophy
  • Theology
  • Charms

• I used to love looking at a recipe, getting all the bits and pieces in the shops, getting them ready and prepared... I don't really have the time to do that anymore.

  

  Brian O'Driscoll
  • Time
  • Pieces
  • Shops

• Plato used to say to Xenocrates the philosopher, who was rough and morose, "Good Xenocrates, sacrifice to the Graces.

  

  Plutarch
  • Sacrifice
  • Philosopher
  • Plato

• We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software - that's something we brought to computing. And so it's a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don't get in the way of that dream.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Idea
  • Creation
  • PC industry

• The Germans are clear about what they do - cars and machine tools; the Japanese are clear about what they do - electronics; the Chinese are clear about what they do - they're the workshop of the world.

  

  Evan Davis
  • Germans
  • Workshop
  • Electronics

• People get good gigs because they stand up....You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Tyranny
  • Standup
  • Gigs