Seth Godin Quotes

There's no life-work balance. I think you have to have the discipline to have the life you want to have. And if you are stealing from one part of your life in order to make the other part work, you are going to pay for it.

Seth Godin

• Balance
• Discipline
• Order
• Pay
• Stealing

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• All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Women
  • Family
  • Think

• If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Good
  • You
  • Proud

• I had an amazing childhood.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Amazing
  • Childhood
  • Had

• If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Good
  • History

• In the beginning, I was so chintzy I really didn't pay my employees well.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Beginning
  • Pay
  • Employees

• How you manage change can make all the difference.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • You
  • Change
  • Difference

• The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and dozens of local economies hugging the Capital Beltway.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Beautiful
  • Construction
  • Spy

• You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Up
  • World
  • You

• I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.

  

  Karel Reisz
  • Speak
  • Will
  • Only

• Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Writing
  • Walk
  • Lunchtime

• I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Think
  • Artist
  • Wonder

• I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Poetry

• Folks are always talking about 40 acres and a mule, but what we need is some psychoanalysis. Forget 40 acres in a mule: sign all of us up for some shrinks so we can get ourselves right by reflecting and truly learning ourselves.

  

  LaTanya Richardson
  • Up
  • Learning
  • Always

• Dreams come true, but then things happen that are beyond anything you could dream. To be in a movie and to be in the same room participating in a movie with Meryl Streep? Come on!

  

  BeBe Winans
  • True
  • Movie
  • Dream

• He climbs highest who helps another up.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Up
  • Another
  • Highest

• Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • Ultimate
  • Guns

• 'Were I to use the wits the good Spirits gave me,' he said, 'then I would say this lady can not exist - for what sane man would hold a dream to be reality. Yet rather would I not be sane and lend belief to charmed, enchanted eyes.'

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Good
  • Dream
  • Reality

• We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Science

• For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information.

  

  Craig McCracken
  • Time
  • Long

• Too often, contemning the external order as unspiritual, [the Puritan] has made it, and ultimately himself, less spiritual by reason of his contempt.

  

  R. H. Tawney
  • Reason
  • Spiritual
  • Order

• Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Life
  • Character
  • Service

• If you pay attention to the world, it’s an amazing place. If you don’t, it’s whatever you think it is.

  

  Reggie Watts
  • World
  • Place
  • Pay

• There's no life-work balance. I think you have to have the discipline to have the life you want to have. And if you are stealing from one part of your life in order to make the other part work, you are going to pay for it.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Balance
  • Discipline
  • Order