Seth Godin Quotes

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

Seth Godin

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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

• 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

• A tree ascended there. Oh pure transendence! Oh Orpheus sings! Oh tall tree in the ear! And all things hushed. Yet even in that silence a new beginning, beckoning, change appeared.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Beginning
  • Silence
  • Tree

• Rappers spit rhymes that are mostly illegal, MC's spit rhymes to uplift their people.

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
  • People
  • Rap
  • Rapper

• Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the Book of Mormon to expose and combat the falsehoods in socialism, organic evolution, rationalism, humanism, and so forth.…And our nation will continue to degenerate unless we read and heed the words of the God of this land, Jesus Christ, and quit building up and upholding the secret combinations which the Book of Mormon tells us proved the downfall of both previous American civilizations.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Evolution
  • Families
  • Teachings

• There is enough of free-of-charge software available on the Net to ease building internet websites and contact pages, as well as implement email marketing campaigns.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Free
  • Enough
  • Internet

• You can never have enough guitars. It's like women and shoes... it's nice to have different paints on your palette.

  

  Dave Genn
  • Different
  • Nice
  • Enough

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

  

  Seth Godin
  • Enough
  • Criticism
  • Differences