Seth Godin Quotes

Saying 'no' or even 'stop' is the hallmark of the professional you want on your team.

Seth Godin

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• I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• Necessity makes even the timid brave.

  

  Sallust
  • Brave
  • Necessity
  • Even

• I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Song
  • Feeling
  • Me

• I make work not to give answers but to question things.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Work
  • Question
  • Give

• Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people that it's jumping back between northern and southern hemispheres and moving itself around the world. By the time it gets back to where it started, it's changed sufficiently so that people are no longer immune.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I'd do the same things, but I'd be a little more quiet.

  

  Jack Whittaker
  • Same
  • More
  • Quiet

• Lee Ann Womack is from near where I grew up in East Texas, so I've always looked up to her. I sang a lot of Dolly Parton as a kid and a lot of traditional western swing, like Patsy Cline and Roy Rogers.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Kid
  • Texas
  • Western

• I have drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw in the missing parts of the tapestry that needed to be re-woven. My ability to draw made me indispensable to my parents.

  

  Louise Bourgeois
  • Life
  • Business
  • Parents

• People have the right to say whatever they want.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • People

• I gravitated back to theatre again, and when I heard about this little independent movie called 'Lady Bird,' I thought, 'This will be a project where I can dip my toe back into the water.'

  

  Laurie Metcalf
  • Movie
  • Water
  • Independent

• If you want to achieve something, you're going to run into roadblocks, but you have to learn how to pivot and explore your options.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Explore

• How is the economy supposed to recover when people can't afford to fill the tank?

  

  Jay Kay Jamiroquai
  • People

• When I go to M Bar there's all kinds of agents there, looking for people who doing good stuff.

  

  Bob Odenkirk
  • People
  • Good

• Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, 'No.'

  

  Douglas Brinkley

• I'm not sure my books would translate into movies very easily. So rather than have someone do a terrible job, I haven't been willing to sell them.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Job

• My heart is just being in this industry. I've been lucky enough to have been in films, plays, and on radio.

  

  Bradley Walsh
  • Heart

• Almost everybody who thinks about local thinks about daily deals, but companies like OpenTable and Zillow and Yelp are all getting their money from the local market.

  

  Bill Gurley
  • Money
  • Daily

• I've never taken drugs. My drug, I suppose, is drink. I never drink before I sing, but I do make up for it when I come off!

  

  Bonnie Tyler
  • Up
  • Taken
  • Drug

• One of my initial memories of being taken over by music was watching Paul McCartney on TV play a tribute to John Lennon. He was playing piano by himself and singing 'Imagine,' and I remember feeling an anxiety and shortness of breath.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Music
  • Remember
  • Feeling

• Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Stop
  • Government
  • Tax

• It is probably true that I would not have had as many children or mothers in my books without being a mother with children. It is definitely true that I would not have written about the Civil War without having a little guy who was obsessed with it.

  

  Marly Youmans
  • Children
  • War
  • True

• The most accurate representation of how I feel is that I'm incredibly lucky to be working in this structure where people get paid millions to read the news on TV. And, yes, it is insane. And there is nothing I can say beyond acknowledging my immense good fortune, and being aware that I'm blessed, and aware that it isn't going to last forever.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • People
  • News
  • TV

• On a professional side, you've got a tough problem to fix, Geoff Miller's going to do it, and he's always going to do it to very high standards, and he's always going to be on the side of right. He's always talking about 'what right looks like' - just a phrase he would always use.

  

  Jack Keane
  • High
  • Problem
  • Professional

• Saying 'no' or even 'stop' is the hallmark of the professional you want on your team.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Team
  • Professional
  • Hallmark