Seth Godin Quotes

But if the cow is purple, you'd notice it, OK? The thing that's going to decide what gets talked about, what gets done, what gets changed, what gets purchased, what gets built is, is it remarkable? And remarkable's a really cool word 'cause we think it just means neat, but it also means worth making a remark about, and that is the essence of where idea diffusion is going.

Seth Godin

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• I love 'Annie Hall'; I will always come back to that film again and again. Diane Keaton has been such an inspiration to me. She always brings humour, but complexity, and I love watching her on screen. She's got real charisma.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Inspiration
  • Complexity
  • Humour

• Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it's amazing. I am awful, the worst dater.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • Amazing
  • Dating
  • Skills

• You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.

  

  Beanie Sigel
  • Time
  • You
  • Be Prepared

• I loved the writing process. I loved it.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Writing
  • Process
  • Loved

• Nearly all the great improvements, discoveries, inventions, and achievements which have elevated and blessed humanity have been the triumphs of enthusiasm.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Humanity
  • Blessed

• Music is like a lifeblood - it changes the way I move; it changes the way I feel about myself. The way I walk into the room is different depending on the song I was just listening to.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Music
  • Different
  • Song

• I saw this on CNN a few days ago. In New York these cops freaked out. They shot at this guy like 15 times 'cause they said they thought he had a a grenade. HE WAS EATING A PEAR! How do you fuck that up?! Unless he was eating it like 'AHHHHHH! *throws pear* THAT'S A DELICIOUS PEAR!!!'

  

  Dane Cook
  • Up
  • Guy

• Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • People
  • God

• The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life, what is seen as good and evil. Good and evil are defined by religions.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Life
  • Good
  • Art

• For me, happiness is doing my best and trying to be helpful.

  

  Ken Kercheval
  • Trying

• I went to Julliard and we did a lot of mask work there, and I remember thinking in class, 'When am I ever going to use this?'

  

  Benjamin Walker
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

  

  Charles Lamb
  • School
  • Childhood

• People say writing is really hard. That's very unfair to those who are doing real jobs. People who work in the fields or fix roofs, engineers, or car mechanics. I think lying on your back working under an oily car, that's a job.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• Every person who starts at Boxed does shifts at the fulfillment center. It doesn't matter if you are the general counsel or the COO.

  

  Chieh Huang

• I didn't want really to be involved in a normal soccer club.

  

  Eric Cantona
  • Soccer

• I live here in Vermont, in a village of barely a thousand people halfway up the state's third highest mountain.

  

  Chris Bohjalian
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• I just feel it's a shame to let fear get in your way and stop you achieving things.

  

  Alex Sharp
  • Fear
  • Stop

• I started 'The Rainmaker' in August 1996, and I've been working consistently ever since. It's not like I had some grand plan; I keep getting offered jobs so good I can't say no.

  

  Matt Damon
  • Good
  • August

• Every night I get up on stage, I love it. I never get like, 'Oh, I'm bored, I want to go home.' I never, ever get like that.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Up
  • Home
  • Night

• This record is probably as easy as anything I've ever done.

  

  Chris LeDoux
  • Done

• Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Thinking

• I always used to pretend to be different characters - cowboys, that sort of thing. I used to think that the Indians lived over the mountains that I could see out of my bedroom. As I grew up, I started to understand that acting was actually a craft, and there was no question about it, that was exactly what I was going to do.

  

  Aneurin Barnard
  • Up
  • Different
  • Question

• Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. Then there could be new paintings again.

  

  Willem de Kooning
  • Painting
  • Hell
  • Painter

• But if the cow is purple, you'd notice it, OK? The thing that's going to decide what gets talked about, what gets done, what gets changed, what gets purchased, what gets built is, is it remarkable? And remarkable's a really cool word 'cause we think it just means neat, but it also means worth making a remark about, and that is the essence of where idea diffusion is going.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Mean