Seth Godin Quotes

It turns out that the people who like their jobs the most are also the ones who are doing the best work, making the greatest impact, and changing the most.

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• The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Amazing

• I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valentine's Day. It's more romantic than being given a big bunch of flowers that everyone else is doing.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Day
  • Romantic
  • Flowers

• For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Know

• You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.

  

  Barry Mann
  • You
  • Accept
  • Rejection

• Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • People
  • Done
  • Parents

• Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Why

• Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Mistakes
  • Capitalism

• Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Stories
  • Fight
  • Intelligence

• The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Long
  • Law
  • Dress

• It's the irrational things that interest me.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Me
  • Things
  • Interest

• And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

  

  Hans Kung
  • People
  • God
  • Community

• We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Pretty
  • Everyone
  • Whiskey

• Jill Clayburgh's life so closely paralleled mine, I feel as though a part of me lived a little through her and died a little with her.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Feel
  • Died

• There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Heart
  • Story
  • Secrets

• I fly from the seat of my pants, basically.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Fly
  • Pants
  • Seat

• I'm pretty boring.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Pretty
  • Boring

• My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.

  

  B. B. King
  • Work
  • She
  • Government

• I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Trying
  • Body
  • Down

• I'm a bad interview because I want to always feel like I'm being totally honest, but at the same time, I'm absolutely paranoid. That combination results in a lot of spaces.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Want

• There are few places in England where you can get so much wildness and desolation of sea and sandhills, wood, green marsh and grey saltings as at Wells in Norfolk.

  

  William Henry Hudson
  • Green
  • England
  • Desolation

• I don't know how many great Brazilians have played in the Olympics and not been able to win it.

  

  Neymar
  • Great

• There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen.

  

  Bryan White
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• It turns out that the people who like their jobs the most are also the ones who are doing the best work, making the greatest impact, and changing the most.

  

  Seth Godin
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