Seth Godin Quotes

The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.

Seth Godin

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• Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.

  

  Karen McCarthy
  • Career
  • Others
  • Ahead

• I've got to say, my parents have always been very supportive. I used to sit in my bedroom and read every liner note and listened to records. My parents are rock fans.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Parents
  • Rock
  • Always

• I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Up
  • Family
  • Feminist

• I never trusted good-looking boys.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • Trust
  • Never

• The economic sense of possibility was so great when I was growing up that my parents had no question that I could do anything I wanted to do, even as a girl. I've always believed that the economics of a story intersects with the women's story - that stuff often happens at the time it happens because of the economy.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I will run against anybody.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Will
  • Run
  • Against

• To be a friend means that they are always there, for the good or the bad.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Friend

• Pioneer women were very tough - they had to be, because the men go off for long periods of time, and the women would have to be able to protect themselves and their homes.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• All political parties, organizations, and all people should abide by the constitution and laws without any exception. They must all act in accordance with the constitution and laws. I see that as a defining feature of modern political system development.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • People
  • Political

• The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Thinking
  • Trouble
  • Discover

• I watched a lot of comedy growing up.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Comedy

• I love seeing women looking great in my clothes. I don't care who they are. I don't quantify people by celebrity.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • People
  • Women
  • Celebrity

• He John Ruskin knows a great deal more about my pictures than I do; he puts things into my head, and points out meanings in them that I never intended.

  

  J. M. W. Turner
  • Great

• When we look at a thing, we must examine its essence and treat its appearance merely as an usher at the threshold, and once we cross the threshold, we must grasp the essence of the thing; this is the only reliable and scientific method of analysis.

  

  Mao Zedong

• Cause you can be quick, jump the candlestick, burn your back, and fuck Jill on a hill, but you still ain't jack.

  

  Eminem
  • Jump

• But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years. I wanted to go to Africa to find some of these creatures.

  

  Donald Johanson
  • History

• For a brief time in the 1850s, the telegraph companies of England and the United States thought that they could (and should) preserve every message that passed through their wires. Millions of telegrams - in fireproof safes. Imagine the possibilities for history!

  

  James Gleick
  • Time
  • History

• But if I had committed a breach of privilege, it was the privilege of the Senate, and not of this House, which was violated. I was answerable there and not here.

  

  Preston Brooks
  • House

• I will tell you that I'm a bit of a snob. I love film, and I would like to work in film, and I'm disappointed that indie film is as hard as it is to work in now. It's hard to get things done, but that sort of work is being done on TV. That's what I do; that's what I write. It's what I love, and hopefully, that's what my future's going to be.

  

  Kelly Masterson
  • Work
  • Done
  • Future

• For anyone who has ever stood before a bathroom mirror and secretly thanked The Academy, a hilarious guide to becoming 'It' in an age where the line between fame and infamy is as fine as a Manolo Blahnik stiletto heel.

  

  Bonnie Fuller
  • Mirror
  • Fame
  • Guide

• Living according to the basic gospel principles will bring power, strength, and spiritual self-reliance into the lives of all Latter-day Saints.

  

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf
  • Power
  • Spiritual

• People believe practice makes perfect, but it doesn't. If you're making a tremendous amount of mistakes, all you're doing is deeply ingraining the same mistakes.

  

  Jillian Michaels
  • People
  • Believe
  • Perfect

• This is a revolution of the mind, get your mind together and get away from drugs.

  

  James Brown
  • Mind
  • Together
  • Peace

• The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Perfect
  • Revolution
  • Impossible