Seth Godin Quotes

There's nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.

Seth Godin

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• As far as 'Windup Girl' becoming a hit - none of us expected that. 'Night Shade' was just hoping not to lose their shirts, and I had grown up hearing from everyone that science fiction didn't sell, so all of our expectations were very low.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Up
  • Night
  • Science

• I can't predict the future. All I know is that if we continue down the path we're on, the Affordable Care Act will implode on itself. People will be without insurance.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Future
  • Path

• Too often, companies focus on systems and structures that facilitate cultural change at the mid-management level, overlooking problems closer to the top.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Change
  • Focus
  • Problems

• Promise me, Amelie, that you’ll crucify me with silver before you allow me to fall in love.” “I hardly think there’s any chance of that,” Amelie said. "I doubt you have the capacity.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Fall
  • Doubt
  • Chance

• You got a man? That's somethin we will talk about. He's smart enough to have ya, but dumb enough to let ya out.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Men
  • Enough
  • Smart

• I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• I'm not so out of touch that I don't see how young people interact today.It was horrific. And that's an example of something that it's not as if that's the first time that a hate crime has taken place in this country. Hate crimes have been taking place for hundreds of years in this country, but it's there on video.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• I'm trying to create a body of work that sort of represents something, and has something to say. Hopefully, I'll have a career that, 20 years from now, I'll look back and I'll have told the world about a slice of New York that they wouldn't have known about.

  

  Edward Burns
  • World
  • Work
  • Trying

• What being a crew and what this film did was give people a sense of future. It gave them a goal to work towards, which was really special.

  

  Marc Singer
  • People
  • Work
  • Future

• People often think of Haiti as a place where you're not supposed to have any joy. I wanted to show that this is a place with joy.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • Joy
  • Place

• What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.

  

  August Strindberg
  • Men
  • Skins
  • Occupation

• I see the friends I made over the years who have become family today, people I became acquainted with who have achieved so much in their lives. They taught me something with each meeting.

  

  Akshay Kumar
  • People
  • Family
  • Friends

• Cheerleading is a part of you. You live it all the time. People will judge you based upon it, but you can't be ashamed because although they may make fun of you, they are just jealous that you are on of the elite, the superior, the best... a cheerleader!

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• When your situation has gone beyond the power of nature, it has become a curse. Who can remove a curse but Jesus Christ?

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Jesus

• Commerce in itself may favour peace, but when commerce is artificially shut out by a decree of Government from some promising territory, then commerce just as naturally favours war.

  

  John Robert Seeley
  • May
  • War
  • Peace

• People can get a bit like, "Oh my God, your life is different than mine." But no, it's not. Everyone's got the same problems. We all get jobs, and we lose them. We have a good time, and we don't have a good time. It's changed in that some people have a certain expectation of what they might find when they meet me, which sucks, because I'm not that thing.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Why don't we teach sex the way we teach math or history? It is such a deeply crucial and healing part of life and we offer no road map. I think it is core to ending violence.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • History
  • Violence
  • Sex

• There's nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Failing
  • Plans
  • Missions