Seth Godin Quotes

You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.

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• My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Music
  • Family
  • Remember

• I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • School
  • Kids
  • Help

• Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Country
  • Power

• A woman simply is, but a man must become.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Man
  • Woman

• Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Suffering
  • Principle

• A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Love
  • Investment
  • Only

• I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'

  

  Zoe Tapper
  • Love
  • Age
  • Dream

• Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Christian
  • Values
  • Roots

• I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Fun
  • Boy
  • Story

• I think we all have had better days in competition.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Think
  • Better
  • Competition

• Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let's hope so.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Job
  • Hope

• I guess I'm attracted to people who are singing about love or life, and they have a particular passion that I can connect with.

  

  Langhorne Slim
  • People
  • Life
  • Passion

• Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Good
  • Me
  • Loser

• Even working from nature you have to compose.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Nature

• The bees came booming as if they had never gone, As if hyacinths had never gone. We say This changes and that changes. Thus the constant Violets, doves, girls, bees and hyacinths Are inconstant objects of inconstant cause In a universe of inconstancy. This meansNight-blue is an inconstant thing. The seraph Is satyr in Saturn, according to his thoughts.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Universe
  • Thoughts
  • Blue

• There are who separate the eternal light In forms of man and woman, day and night; They cannot bear that God be essence quite.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • God
  • Night
  • Light

• Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that?

  

  Win Butler
  • Responsibility
  • Band
  • Rock

• Like all holy figures whose earthly existence separates them from the broad mass of humanity, a saint is a story, and Joan of Arc's is like no other.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • Humanity

• The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It's more acute in the beginning and after a little time you settle back to what you were. However it leaves an indelible mark on your psyche.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • Life
  • Time
  • Beginning

• In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.

  

  Bruce Nauman
  • Time
  • Work
  • Thinking

• Aesthetically, London is just beautiful; it's a gorgeous city. The architecture, monuments, the parks, the small streets - it's an incredible place to be.

  

  Sara Bareilles
  • Beautiful
  • Small
  • City

• Constantly there's a credibility issue; you're judged on how you look. If you look good, people assume you aren't credible. It's a battle you'll always fight if you're on TV and a female.

  

  Lisa Guerrero
  • People
  • Good

• You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Fool