Seth Godin Quotes

Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.

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• I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Practice
  • See
  • Down

• Although it's the hub of the nervous system and the ultimate terminus of every nerve, the brain itself lacks enervation and therefore cannot feel pain.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Pain
  • Brain
  • Feel

• To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting countless hours in the studio, not just to write and produce stuff, but to come up with edits and special things for the show.

  

  Kaskade
  • Up
  • You
  • Special

• I pick my actors primarily based on my gut-feel. They could be rank newcomers or established stars, but if I feel they'll do justice to my characters, they are on. I think Bollywood is now looking towards Kollywood for new faces, and, to my mind, Suriya will be a very successful crossover star because he's very versatile.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Mind
  • Justice
  • Star

• The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Work
  • Say
  • Majority

• You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Writing
  • Why
  • Today

• I actually hate shopping.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Hate
  • Shopping
  • Actually

• Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • World
  • May

• Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Music
  • Popular
  • Try

• The Palestinian Authority has become the biggest terror body in the world.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • World
  • Body
  • Authority

• Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Money
  • Business
  • Author

• The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Mind
  • Sorrow
  • Sympathy

• The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Food
  • Comfort

• What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.

  

  Arnold Palmer
  • Business
  • Hand

• I have a very great respect for Americans, and having been a correspondent in this country, and I believe that Americans are people who respond much better to facts and truthful, genuine speculation, than they do to purely, kind of phoney, adulation.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Man
  • Clothes
  • Appearance

• Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Peace
  • Understanding
  • Force

• A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear.

  

  Carlo Collodi
  • Feeling
  • Moments
  • Boy

• I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.

  

  Beryl Markham
  • Believe
  • Remember
  • Way

• If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Know
  • Punishment

• I don’t want to be an editor! I don’t want to direct; I’d be a horrible director. I don’t want to write - I have a “story by” credit on one film I did. And I don’t want to edit at all.

  

  Topher Grace
  • Film
  • Director
  • Credit

• Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.

  

  Seth Godin
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