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

• There's a lot more to me than just power.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Power
  • Me
  • More

• The society that produced The Who, The Stones, Dylan, Paul McCartney and later on people, like myself, is over. The materialistic society that produces these kinds of bombastic performances that don't have any value or musical meaning, is very conspicuous, look at me, I'm rich, dig my brand. That's what missing, Bob Dylan made us feel worthy, I try to do the same thing. Respect for the audience with music that is meaningful and soulful. Go for what moves you and not necessarily what you think will be commercial.

  

  Don McLean
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• It is not possible to engage in the direct apostolate without being a soul of prayer. We must be aware of oneness with Christ, as he was aware of oneness with his Father. Our activity is truly apostolic only insofar as we permit him to work in us and through us with his power, with his desire, with his love.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Father
  • Soul
  • Desire

• The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this.

  

  Sigmar Gabriel
  • Democracy
  • Example
  • Ideology

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

  

  Seth Godin
  • Instinct
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