Seth Godin Quotes
If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.
Quotes to Explore
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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I don't know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
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Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.
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The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.
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If you want to humble an empire, it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe.
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Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.
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The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
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Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old.
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I enjoy the hunt much more than the 'good life' after the victory.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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Every season I am inspired by women.
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Tranquilizer in tha trunk put yo ass to sleep man, Birdman Junior got the world in my wingspan.
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I would love to be on 'Glee,' thus furthering the myth that I'm a gay man.
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From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks
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Art seduces, but does not exploit.
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My wedding dress is a piece of art that I'll treasure forever. It was designed and created by Zac Posen. I gave him only the tiniest bit of direction when he started, and the end product was more beautiful than anything I could have imagined.
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The real beginning of influence comes as others sense you are being influenced by them - when they feel understood by you - that you have listened deeply and sincerely, and that you are open.
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If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.
