Seth Godin Quotes

The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.

Seth Godin

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• Public office must not be a means to profit or become rich.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Rich
  • Office
  • Profit

• I don't marry bandmates just to go marrying bandmates.

  

  Valerie June
  • Just
  • Go
  • Marry

• Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Think
  • Look
  • Down

• I'm a horrible perfectionist and very highly strung. That's why I do yoga: to unwind.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Why
  • Yoga
  • Perfectionist

• I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn't coming back.' They started throwing Bibles.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Church
  • Jesus
  • Saying

• To be honest, I grew up with Alan Menken's music.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Up
  • Music
  • Honest

• It takes a long time to get to be a diva. I mean, you gotta work at it.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• Success is not built on what we accomplish for ourselves. Its foundation lies in what we do for others.

  

  Danny Thomas
  • Success
  • Lies
  • Lying

• does you costume involve leather?" she'd asked. and he'd said, "Actually, yeah, it might." it really did. it involved a leather dog collar, leather pants and a leash, and the leash was held by Ysandre, who was in skintight red rubber, from neck to knee high boots. she'd topped it off with a pair of devil horns and a red tridant. she'd made Shane her dog, complete with furry dog mask. ***"Breathe," Myrnin said. "I'm not much for it myself, but i hear it's quite good for humans."***

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Good
  • She
  • High

• The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast... [But] the cinema realizes the paradox of moulding itself on the time of the object and of taking the imprint of its duration as well.

  

  Andre Bazin
  • Time
  • Realizing
  • Photographer

• Good ideas are a dime a dozen. What counts is completion. Look at your life and all the half finished projects sitting on your shelf. Commit to taking on one of these ideas and finishing what you started.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Life
  • Good
  • Ideas

• How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Time
  • Future
  • Past

• To be fully human is...to know that it's possible to face the unimaginable and somehow put one foot in front of the other.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Human
  • Front
  • Unimaginable

• We were just at the beginnings of a recovery [in 2010]. And the, you know, whoever is president at that point is gonna get hit and his party's gonna get hit. That then means that suddenly you've got a redistricting in which a lot of state legislatures are now Republican. They draw lines that give a huge structural advantage in subsequent elections.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Party
  • Recovery

• My idea of the perfect exercise class is this: The teacher gives us all a hug and goes, “You did it! You showed up! Let’s lie down.” We all lie down and she’s like, “How is everybody feeling?” We’re like, “Great!” And the teacher’s like, “Great!” Then we all get to leave 20 minutes early.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Up
  • She
  • Feeling

• Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • Hollywood
  • Type
  • Producer

• When most actors finally get to L.A., I think they expect to be the next Will Smith or Denzel Washington and that's not the case.

  

  Andrea Hall
  • Actors
  • Expect
  • Case

• Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)

  

  John Arbuthnot
  • Life
  • Secret
  • Apologizing

• Grace in women has more effect than beauty. We sometimes see a certain fine self-possession, an habitual voluptuousness of character, which reposes on its own sensations and derives pleasure from all around it, that is more irresistible than any other attraction. There is an air of languid enjoyment in such persons, "in their eyes, in their arms, and their hands, and their face," which robs us of ourselves, and draws us by a secret sympathy towards them.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Character
  • Eye
  • Secret

• Right now, in the amazing moment that to us counts as the present, we are deciding, without quite meaning to, which evolutionary pathways will remain open and which will forever be closed. No other creature has ever managed this and it will, unfortunately, be our most enduring legacy.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Legacy
  • Creature
  • Remain

• The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Secret
  • Realizing
  • Willing