Seth Godin Quotes

We are too focused on avoiding criticism and not enough on making a difference.

Seth Godin

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• Criticism
• Differences
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• Every time I could possibly be doing stand up, I am.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Time
  • Stand
  • Possibly

• Nerves are good. They keep you alive.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Good
  • You
  • Alive

• Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Space

• My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from the street. He was homeless, but eventually he got a car so he could sell from the boot. And by the 1980s, he was a millionaire wholesaling to companies like Topshop. So in a way, fashion put me in England.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Up
  • Fashion
  • Car

• I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Goal
  • Senate
  • Emissions

• No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Values
  • Own
  • Faithful

• It was only after the Grimms published two editions primarily for adults that they changed their attitude and decided to produce a shorter edition for middle-class families. This led to Wilhelm's editing and censoring many of the tales.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Attitude
  • Two
  • Editing

• Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • Man
  • Myself
  • Window

• My characters are not plastic.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Characters
  • Plastic

• I am gluten free, dairy free and sugar free, although I do slip up on the sugar sometimes because I have a big sweet tooth!

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Free
  • Sweet
  • Dairy

• I basically raised myself.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Myself
  • Raised
  • Basically

• I had an agent who spent eight years - eight years! - trying to sell my stories. She sold other people's work; she just didn't sell mine.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• I'm a big pasta fan. I'm a big Italian food fan. Anything Italian - I love cheese, mozzarella. Mozzarella is my favorite, so I have to say anything Italian, I'll take it.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Food
  • Favorite
  • Take

• My grandmother had many children. She lost most. So when we came along, we were really special. I was the first grandchild that could see her spirit moving to a new generation.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Children
  • She
  • Lost

• The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • May
  • Experience
  • Wisdom

• A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher; he's just someone who is witness to what is around him. And so writing is a way to... it's the best way to testify, to be a witness.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Best

• No man can add one dollar to his bank account by worrying.

  

  Vash Young
  • Man
  • Bank
  • Dollar

• As an adult, I have often been deep in serious conversation with someone I've highly respected and seen them roll an eye as my mouth has mangled yet another magnificently conceived, clumsily articulated sentence. In my mind, the words are mellifluous as honey. In my mouth, they are shards of glass.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Mind
  • Words
  • Serious

• I think most writers, in a sense, have this desire to disappear, to be absolutely anonymous, to be removed in some way: that comes out of the need to be a writer.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Think
  • Desire
  • Need

• I used a fifties Les Paul custom on most of the stuff. I also used a Strat, a newer Strat. I had a million guitars in there but I used the Strat & the Les Paul in just about everything. There were a lot of different amp choices, I was working with a pro tools plug-in which is like an amplifier stimulator. The possibilities with something like that are just endless.

  

  Tracii Guns L.A. Guns
  • Different
  • Choices
  • Guitar

• I made that decision back in 1985. I was out here getting certified in SCUBA with Garcia in Kona and I thought to myself, this is a place to wake up in in the morning.

  

  Bill Kreutzmann Grateful Dead
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Decision

• As for the criticism we receive, you know, even Mr. [Donald] Trump's team criticize us. For instance, one of the participants or members of his team claimed that Russia was giving money to the Clintons through some funds and that in fact Russia is controlling the Clinton family. This is nonsense.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Giving
  • Team
  • Criticism

• Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.

  

  Confucius
  • Rule
  • Laws
  • Sings

• We are too focused on avoiding criticism and not enough on making a difference.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Enough
  • Criticism
  • Differences