Seth Godin Quotes

The job is not the work.

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• I think violence can never be justified.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Think
  • Never
  • Violence

• I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Man
  • Me
  • Military

• I'm not politically correct.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Politically Correct

• The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Science

• There's a big difference between being privileged and being spoilt. My parents always said, 'Spoilt means ruined, and you're not ruined, just incredibly fortunate.'

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Parents
  • You
  • Said

• We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Power
  • Spiritual
  • Need

• When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Time
  • Great
  • Writing

• Kmart uses such mass production that they are able to lower their prices. My hose, for instance, is made by the same factory, the same machines, the same threads as the hose made by four top designers.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Same
  • Machines
  • Threads

• If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• We all have to make choices in life.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Life
  • Choices
  • Make

• Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Work
  • Help

• Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • Life
  • Peace
  • Silence

• Safety should be a birthright.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • Safety

• If you know people, it's so much more fun working with them because it's like your family is back together again.

  

  James Bobin
  • People
  • Family
  • Together

• I grew up a happy kid in Toronto. I've never suffered. I've never even had a real job! But I understand sadness and striving, and those two things tie into all the roles that I've played.

  

  Alison Pill
  • Up
  • Real
  • Job

• One we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life.

  

  Jerome K. Jerome
  • Life
  • Daily

• Mr. Breton didn't know about location, location, location.

  

  Daniel Pinkwater

• The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are.

  

  Christopher Eccleston
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Parents

• Conditions in Chinese factories are harsh. They're much harsher than they are in, for instance, the United States or any Western nation.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Chinese

• It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters.

  

  Alice Hamilton
  • Believe
  • Chicago
  • Irish

• It was kind of good that I wasn't doing the Hollywood high life and stuff like that when I was 18, 19, 20, 21.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Life
  • Good
  • High

• Refuse to be disheartened, discouraged, distracted from your goals in life.

  

  Bernice King
  • Life
  • Goals

• Comparisons are really no good in sport, especially if it is a comparison between different eras and generations, for there are so many variables that come into play, starting from the quality of the opposition to playing conditions.

  

  Sunil Gavaskar
  • Generations
  • Conditions
  • Opposition

• The job is not the work.

  

  Seth Godin
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