Seth Godin Quotes

What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer? If you're not, you're wasting away.

Seth Godin

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• I grew up on films.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Up
  • Films
  • Grew

• I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.

  

  Ice T
  • Long
  • Feel
  • Rap

• Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Simple
  • Ideas
  • Commerce

• I'm open to sci-fi, but I was never a diehard fan. I have no idea why it keeps following me. I'm extremely lucky, I guess; it's a lucrative venue.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Idea
  • Lucky
  • Fan

• It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned version of what took place.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Pretty
  • Reality
  • Place

• Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Giving
  • Enough
  • Fortune

• The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Economy
  • Rich
  • Taxation

• If you've got cockles, those nickel-size, heart-shaped mollusks, and you want to get fancy, steam them, then toss the meat in finely ground cornmeal.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Heart
  • Want
  • You

• As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Experience
  • Job
  • Personal

• Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Everybody
  • Anybody
  • Somebody

• Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don't believe in that because I think that is much too subjective.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Dark

• Sometimes I get very dressed up just to go to the corner for some bread; I dress for my own amusement.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Up
  • Sometimes
  • Own

• If I hadn't have been good enough at football, I'd have been a sports journalist - which is what I do now anyway. Or a cricketer. I might have been a cricketer.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Good
  • Football
  • Sports

• The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • World
  • Important
  • Friends

• In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • People
  • World
  • Rich

• People say that globalisation has negative aspects, but I don't believe globalisation is bad. It's criticised from a western perspective, but if you put yourself in the shoes of people in the developing world, it provides an unprecedented opportunity.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Eye
  • Moon
  • Animals

• Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Sacred
  • Cows
  • Hamburger

• I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People
  • Writing
  • Strange

• I'm a family man. I just love being around my family.

  

  Carlos Beltran
  • Love
  • My Family
  • Family Man

• I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Work
  • Excited
  • Ridley Scott

• NBC is excited about the investment in WWF Entertainment. The WWF is widely recognized as having created a leading brand and has done a remarkable job gathering large audiences in the coveted male demographics.

  

  Bob Wright
  • Job
  • Excited
  • Brand

• I love music. That's my first love. I'm actually going to start working on that full-time very soon, but I love acting as well. It satisfies a different part of who I am. I love to pretend, to imagine, try new things, work with different people, and just see how far I can go.

  

  Brandy
  • Music
  • Working
  • Imagine

• What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer? If you're not, you're wasting away.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Working
  • Answer
  • Excited