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

• We're always going to be a society that's going to slow down and look at the wreck on the side if the road if there is one. We're always going to do that because it's still fascinating and it's human nature.

  

  George Clooney
  • Looks
  • Humans
  • Stills

• 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

• The sky outside the window was changing rapidly from deep, velvety blue to cold, steely gray and then, slowly, to pink shot with gold.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Deep
  • Cold
  • Gold

• Currently poaching threatens the very existence of the African Elephant, and my worry is that if we do not act NOW, we could be looking at a future in which this iconic species is wiped out.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Future
  • Worry
  • Elephant

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

  

  Seth Godin
  • Instinct
  • Pick