Seth Godin Quotes

Everyone has failed, everyone has misspoken, everyone has meant well but done the wrong thing. Your favorite restaurants, cafes and books have all gotten a one-star review along the way. No brand is perfect, no individual can pretend to be either. Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.

Seth Godin

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• He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.

  

  Ed Wood
  • Work
  • Short
  • Tall

• When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • History
  • Moral

• The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Today
  • Same
  • Started

• We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Important
  • Women
  • She

• I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • You
  • Me
  • Tell

• Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • History
  • Mistake
  • United

• I never wanted to be one of those 'Where are they now?' kids.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Kids
  • Never
  • Now

• While we know gambling is part of the industry in Las Vegas, we're not going to make it all that easy for you to pick up a ticket, a gambling ticket, on your way into the arena.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Up
  • Know
  • Easy

• When you're competitive, the last thing you want to do is come out of a game, regardless of what kind of injury it is - whether it's an ankle, a knee, a rib, or a head injury.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Game
  • Want
  • Kind

• In the beginning, when I was doing my shows, I was incorporating a lot of Spanish, just trying to be a Latino comic instead of just a comic. Now I try to make the show as broad as possible... I don't want to alienate people. I want to make it so everybody can follow along and everybody can relate.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Trying
  • Beginning

• I'm going to try to do music for the rest of my life, but that's just trying. Maybe it's not going to work out. Who knows?

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Life
  • Work
  • Music

• When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Think
  • Light
  • Wise

• Stereotypical vegetarian food looks gray and brown.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Food
  • Vegetarian
  • Gray

• The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • Power
  • History
  • Evidence

• I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Writing
  • Comedy
  • Acting

• My mother was murdered by my step-father, my brother's father, who was also named Joel, twenty-five years ago. Whatever sadness or burden I've been living with since then, my brother's also been living with, but he's lived with the added burden of having the exact same name as our mother's murderer.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Brother

• I'm always in trouble with Twitter. I don't know what it is. Trying to shake it.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Trying
  • Know
  • Always

• Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.

  

  Wayne White
  • Business
  • Experience
  • Risk

• Then, with lots of people doing that without ever looking over their shoulders to see how they were affecting anybody else, it couldn't work, and it didn't work, and it just came to a standstill.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • People
  • Work
  • Looking

• I consider myself British and have very happy memories of the UK. I spent the first 14 years of my life in England and never wanted to leave. When I was in Australia I went back to England a lot.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Memories

• Being with my family is very important to me, and touring is very important to me, too, because it's who I am. It's what I do.

  

  Keith Urban
  • Important
  • Family

• Everyone has failed, everyone has misspoken, everyone has meant well but done the wrong thing. Your favorite restaurants, cafes and books have all gotten a one-star review along the way. No brand is perfect, no individual can pretend to be either. Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Important
  • Done
  • Book