Seth Godin Quotes

Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness and the scientific method, on the other hand, create a culture of testing and inquiry that can't help but push you forward.

Seth Godin

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• The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Success
  • Science
  • Religious

• We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Work
  • Country
  • Happiness

• Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Good
  • Practice

• I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Love
  • She
  • Night

• I don't know the right way to retire.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Way
  • Know
  • Retire

• We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Same
  • Vices
  • Ladder

• More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Eyes
  • More
  • Ears

• The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.

  

  K. Flay
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Kind

• A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Man
  • Living
  • Go

• Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Power
  • Equality

• I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Simple
  • Architecture
  • Calm

• Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Up
  • Look
  • Books

• Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • More
  • Little
  • Absurd

• When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Family
  • Day
  • Week

• Our Heavenly Father is far more merciful, infinitely more charitable, than even the best of his servants, and the Everlasting Gospel is mightier in power to save than our narrow finite minds can comprehend.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Power
  • Father
  • Best

• The whole New Deal was in a sense just a series of public options, some more optional than others, that offered government as an alternative to the often-flawed private market.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Government
  • Market
  • New Deal

• I've never liked the idea of working for other people.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • People
  • Idea
  • Working

• When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine!

  

  Ace Antonio Hall
  • Write
  • Plan
  • Shine

• It's nice to be able to go do what I love and come home - and get in my own bed.

  

  Carmen Cusack
  • Home
  • Nice

• I still get angry when older people assume that everyone in my generation, screws around. They're probably the same ones who think all kids use dope. It's true that we are more open than our parents but that just means we accept sex and talk about it. It doesn't mean we are all jumping into bed together.

  

  Judy Blume
  • People
  • Together
  • Parent

• I can't hide my feelings.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Feelings
  • Hide

• When I was 41, I had a very bad back pain, and it turned out to be Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

  

  Pamela Druckerman
  • Bad
  • Pain

• Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness and the scientific method, on the other hand, create a culture of testing and inquiry that can't help but push you forward.

  

  Seth Godin
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  • Business
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