Seth Godin Quotes

We do not need to teach students to embrace the status quo.

Seth Godin

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• I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Space
  • Always
  • Warm

• Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.

  

  Edgar Bergen
  • Friend
  • Need
  • Well

• I've been in more laps than a napkin.

  

  Mae West
  • More
  • Been
  • Napkin

• Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Always
  • Same
  • News

• A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

  

  Ida Tarbell
  • Mind
  • Hold
  • Lays

• My candidacy is one that fits the district and fits the Mick Mulvaney-Jim DeMint philosophy.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Philosophy
  • District
  • Fits

• I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would start joking around between songs, and all of a sudden people were lighting up and engaging.

  

  J. Tillman
  • People
  • Up
  • Eyes

• If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Life
  • Die
  • Taken

• I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Bad
  • Enjoy
  • Television

• Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.

  

  Barber Conable
  • World
  • Work
  • Women

• What I'm working is for peace on ground between Israelis and Palestinians through business, through economy, through quality of life.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Life
  • Business
  • Peace

• It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.

  

  Edmund Barton
  • People
  • Education
  • Duty

• As far as I'm concerned, attraction, in its most rudimentary form, comes from the way a person naturally smells. I'd say that within the first five seconds of 'inhaling' someone, I know if there's an attraction or not. This may sound animalistic - and it is.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • May
  • Know
  • Sound

• The best kind of accountability on a team is peer-to-peer. Peer pressure is more efficient and effective than going to the leader, anonymously complaining, and having them stop what they are doing to intervene.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Team
  • Stop
  • Best

• One thing Middle-earth is short on is the feminine.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Earth
  • Short
  • Feminine

• It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like.

  

  Jack Schmitt
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Child

• It was interesting to do a completely fictional piece. You know, Saving Private Ryan was not a fictional piece! So the challenge was: How do you incorporate real emotions? How do you incorporate aspects that people are going to be able to identify with?

  

  Vin Diesel
  • People
  • Real
  • Interesting

• I'm a great will maker. I've made my will every year since I was 21.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Great
  • Year
  • Will

• When your dawn theater sounds to clear your sinuses: don't delay. Jump. Those voices may be gone before you hit the shower to align your wits. Speed is everything. The 90-mph dash to your machine is a sure cure for life rampant and death most real. Make haste to live. Oh, God, yes. Live. And write. With great haste.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Clear

• If they asked how I died tell them: Still angry.

  

  Richard K. Morgan
  • Angry
  • Died

• What is wrong with encouraging students to put "how well they're doing" ahead of "what they're doing." An impressive and growing body of research suggests that this emphasis undermines students' interest in learning, makes failure seem overwhelming, leads students to avoid challenging themselves, reduces the quality of learning, and invites students to think about how smart they are instead of how hard they tried.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Learning
  • Students
  • Research

• I know you can't control everything, and everything is in God's hands ultimately, but I'm going to fight, go out and perform for everybody, I don't care.

  

  Kanye West
  • God
  • Control

• The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Women
  • Tears
  • Complacency

• We do not need to teach students to embrace the status quo.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Teach
  • Students
  • Status Quo