Seth Godin Quotes

No, the only way to know what people think is to watch what they do, not what they say. Do they come back for more? Do you cause them to change their behavior? Can you make them smile?

Seth Godin

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• I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Know
  • Car
  • Everyone

• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Literature
  • Reverence
  • Fatal

• In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.

  

  Barry Bostwick
  • You
  • Actor
  • Just

• I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.

  

  Carlos Ponce
  • Different
  • School
  • Kids

• We human beings are humane in part because we can look beyond our biology.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Human
  • Look
  • Biology

• I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Life
  • Up
  • Without

• I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Like
  • Secrets
  • Boxes

• I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Man
  • Respect
  • Colors

• When we talk about music, we talk about our reaction to it. One person might say that music is so poetic, while another says it's all mathematics. Yet another might say it's about sensuality, and so on. That's all true. But music is not just one of these things. It's everything all at once.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • True
  • Mathematics

• I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Kind
  • Joy
  • Happiness

• When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Kids
  • Model
  • Speak

• If I had different parents who were in it for the money, I might have a different perspective. But they really are artists; they intelligently approach each character and prepare in every sense of the word. I grew up in a world that had great discipline.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Children
  • Think
  • Change

• The thing that sucks is that there's so much false data because people are in mystery as to what Scientology is, so they just kind of make up stuff.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • Up
  • Mystery

• There's no people like show people.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • People
  • Like
  • Show

• I moved to L.A. and watched a lot of local television news, and I started to see the burn logos up on the upper right hand corner - On-Scene Video, RMG Media Group, and all these other ones. I just became intrigued with it.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Hand
  • Television

• I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to the wind and really put it out there as they saw it.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Great
  • Me
  • Wind

• Dovea in memoria avere il signor mio,Che l'oro e 'l premio ogni durezza inchina;Ma, quando bisognò, l'ebbe in oblio,Ed ei si procacciò la sua ruina.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• I think that when you are a teenager, it's the smartest you will ever be in your life. Teenagers are so resilient and strong, it's just amazing.

  

  James St. James
  • Life
  • Strong
  • Amazing

• I was quite shy when I was younger, but I'm not one of those people who can complain of a bad childhood or any trauma. There was none in my life. I had a wonderfully happy childhood.

  

  Emilia Fox
  • People
  • Life
  • Bad

• The study of history reveals that human progress has not been continuous and regular, but intermittent and spasmodic, often depending upon apparently accidental causes. It is difficult to get a cross-section view of society at any given stage.

  

  Charles A. Beard
  • History
  • Society
  • Study

• We must be humble and listen to the people who elected us to lead.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • People
  • Humble

• No, the only way to know what people think is to watch what they do, not what they say. Do they come back for more? Do you cause them to change their behavior? Can you make them smile?

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Way