Seth Godin Quotes

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

Seth Godin

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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

• It falls to each of us to be those anxious, jealous guardians of our democracy; to embrace the joyous task we've been given to continually try to improve this great nation of ours. Because for all our outward differences, we, in fact, all share the same proud title, the most important office in a democracy: Citizen. Citizen.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Important
  • Proud

• The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Life
  • Death
  • Instinct

• The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race.

  

  Gerald M. Loeb
  • Gold
  • Instinct
  • Human Race

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

  

  Karen O
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Through

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

  

  Seth Godin
  • Instinct
  • Pick