Seth Godin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.
-
I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
-
I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my school friends that I was a stud in my colony and to my colony friends that I was a stud in the school cricket and football teams, though I was in no team.
-
Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
-
Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
-
In Iran, people are free to express their views. Every day, some people criticize the policies of the government.
-
The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
-
Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.
-
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
-
I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
-
I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.
-
I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
-
Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.
-
We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
-
China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.
-
Originally, I wanted a pop career and formed a girl-band 'Genie Queen' managed by Andy McClusky from 'Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark', but it didn't work out. My brother John is the talented singer and song-writer with 'The Razz,' while my other brother Sean is a footballer for Telford United.
-
I think, as a woman in action in the business, you would be stupid not to express interest. Any female action role that presents itself as an opportunity I would throw myself at!
-
I grew up thinking that singing was my security.
-
If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.
-
I never look back, ever. I'm always looking ahead, working on the next thing.
-
I always wanted so much glamour in my life, so I have always been obsessed with class, and from dating a few people who were from old money and a few from new money in my 20s, I just sort of became obsessed with this idea of clueless rich people.
-
The sound rule in business is that you may give money freely when you have a surplus, but your name never-neither as endorser nor as member of a corporation with individual liability
-
The job of the linguist, like that of the biologist or the botanist, is not to tell us how nature should behave, or what its creations should look like, but to describe those creations in all their messy glory and try to figure out what they can teach us about life, the world, and, especially in the case of linguistics, the workings of the human mind.
-
If you can raise money, you're never going to have trouble getting a job.
