Seth Godin Quotes
Our cultural instinct is to wait to get picked. No one is going to pick you. Pick yourself.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.
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You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire.
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I have never played a game in my life.
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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
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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.
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Don't talk about yourself so much...we'll do that when you leave.
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Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?
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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.
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As the Cold War melts into history, our first concern should be the preservation and extension of human rights and democracy.
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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In nature, creatures never ended the lives of others except to survive. To women, abortion was self-defense and preservation of the species. Abortion was not a fancy borne out of the female mind. Abortion was instinct beyond ideas. Abortion was fear (the cat that devours its litter when a predator nears).
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My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood.
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Our cultural instinct is to wait to get picked. No one is going to pick you. Pick yourself.
