Seth Godin Quotes

Remarkable work is always not on the list, because if it was, it would be commonplace, not remarkable.

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• I'll tell you something, and this is true: I've never been able to write a film which I didn't respect. I just can't do it. I'm very happy about all the films I haven't done.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Done
  • True
  • Happy

• My mother and father are very involved with music. It's completely part of their soul. They have an incredible record collection, all vinyl, of some of the best artists, in my eyes, that you can come across.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Music
  • Mother
  • Father

• On the other hand, we have in Israel, an Israeli government which has been elected by the Israeli people. Their political agenda is not for peace. They are from the camp anti-peace.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • People
  • Political
  • Peace

• When I was a kid, we went to St. Augustine, Fla., and I was lying on the couch one night with a Q-tip, cleaning my ear out after I'd taken a shower. I hit my arm on something, jabbed the Q-tip through my ear drum, busted my ear drum and couldn't get back in the water the rest of the time we were there.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Time
  • Night
  • Water

• No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Single
  • Human
  • Sacrifice

• Where there is yoga,

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Yoga
  • Prosperity
  • Bliss

• I don't really have a lot of interns, although I do now use Research Assistants to help me compile indexes when that is necessary.

  

  Oliver D. Crisp
  • Help
  • Use
  • Research

• As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Long
  • Action

• Our young men are going into the professional fields because they don't 'feel called' to the mission field. We don't need a call; we need a kick in the pants. We must begin thinking in terms of 'going out,' and stop our weeping because 'they won't come in.' Who wants to step into an igloo? The tombs themselves are not colder than the churches. May God send us forth.

  

  Jim Elliot
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Church

• Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Wisdom
  • Kindness
  • Pity

• A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Time
  • Conscience
  • Intrusion

• Whatever I have up till now accepted as most true and assured I have gotten either from the senses or through the senses. But from time to time I have found that the senses deceive, and it is prudent never to trust completely those who have deceived us even once.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • True
  • Trust
  • Senses

• I've always believed that a speculative bubble need not lead to a recession, as long as interest rates are cut quickly enough to stimulate alternative investments. But I had to face the fact that speculative bubbles usually are followed by recessions. My excuse has been that this was because the policy makers moved too slowly - that central banks were typically too slow to cut interest rates in the face of a burst bubble, giving the downturn time to build up a lot of momentum.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Bubble
  • Recession
  • Interest rates

• This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Reason
  • Theology
  • Seizes

• All churches and all religions contain aspects of the truth, but only God is truth.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • God
  • Truth
  • Religions

• I'm inspired by many different things. Often, I'm inspired by experiences I've had, books I've read, people I've met, stories I've heard.

  

  Joseph Bruchac
  • People
  • Different
  • Inspired

• The artist's imagination may wander far from nature. But as long as it is a living, moving power in his brain, isn't it just as real as any other natural phenomenon? The artist justifies his existence only when he can transform his imagination into truth.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Long
  • Real
  • May

• Remarkable work is always not on the list, because if it was, it would be commonplace, not remarkable.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Remarkable
  • Lists
  • Commonplace