Seth Godin Quotes

Our cultural instinct is to wait to get picked. No one is going to pick you. Pick yourself.

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• Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Water

• Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Life
  • Work
  • Change

• You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Know
  • Me
  • Fire

• I have never played a game in my life.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Life
  • Game
  • Games

• I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Game
  • Single
  • Professional

• I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

  

  Marco Polo
  • Words
  • Story
  • Listener

• Don't talk about yourself so much...we'll do that when you leave.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Leave
  • Don't Talk
  • So Much

• Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?

  

  Willa Cather
  • Art
  • Dream
  • Summer

• I think people are just creative, and this can be expressed in a number of ways. Bob Dylan and David Bowie create both music and art.

  

  Ronnie Wood The Rolling Stones
  • People
  • Creative
  • Ways

• In 1997, we faced daunting challenges. Boom and bust economics..... Now, for all that remains to be done, dwell for a moment on what has been achieved.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Challenges
  • Economics
  • Remains

• I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

  

  Socrates
  • Wisdom
  • Poetry
  • Inspiration

• If I have ideas, I want to put them in the movie. It's not a minimalist approach at all but I feel like it's for the audience. It's about seeing how much texture we can give it and seeing how many things are there for people to latch on to... I just want to do it the way I want and I feel like it won't be helpful for me if I start worrying about that. I just have to follow my instincts. Everyone is going to respond differently to it and everybody's right - that's their point of view. That's how the story intersects with their lives.

  

  Wes Anderson
  • Worry
  • Audience
  • Approach

• I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.

  

  Karen O
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Through

• In the end, maybe that was what separated the real paranormal investigators from the charlatans. The charlatans kept up the aura of mystery and obfuscation. The real investigators kept asking why and how.

  

  Carrie Vaughn
  • Mystery
  • Asking
  • Aura

• Our cultural instinct is to wait to get picked. No one is going to pick you. Pick yourself.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Instinct
  • Pick