Seth Godin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
-
I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
-
At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
-
Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace.
-
Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'
-
My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.
-
I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
-
Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
-
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
-
Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
-
People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
-
I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
-
I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
-
My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
-
I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
-
The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
-
I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.
-
I always put on M.A.C. Prep and Primer before anything.
-
I'm not the kind of person to sit and dwell for ages on something that happened. I go through something, I experience it, I try to learn from it, and I move forward.
-
It's a free society. But don't tell the world that we can feed the present population without chemical fertilizer. That's when this misinformation becomes destructive.
-
All of a sudden, I feel very old and very tired. Maybe when I get to California, the smog, brush fires, floods, and earthquakes will cheer me up.
-
I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.
-
The visionary, industrious, Christian, and segregated black community of the early- to mid-1960s understood and embraced the importance of a positive self-perception. It was this same recognition that drove millions of young patriotic black men throughout our nation's history to be among the first to volunteer when our nation went to war.
-
Positive thinking is hard. Worth it, though.
