Seth Godin Quotes

You don't become indispensable merely because you are different. But the only way to become indispensable is to be different. That's because if you're the same, so are plenty of other people.

Seth Godin

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• When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn't work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Work
  • Game
  • College

• You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Want
  • Words
  • Body

• The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Writing
  • Free

• I have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Singing

• They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Me
  • Lost
  • Paris

• I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Time
  • Three
  • Take

• When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Work
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is our interest in the promotion of democracy in this hemisphere.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Important
  • Me
  • Democracy

• If I was on a march at the moment I would be saying to everyone: 'Be honest with each other. Admit there are limitless possibilities in relationships, and love as many people as you can in whatever way you want, and get rid of your inhibitions, and we'll all be happy.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Love
  • Happy

• What happens if you're the guy who's been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they have nothing for you to do is that they bring in other people, and you become a supporting character to those people.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • People
  • Character
  • Guy

• 'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall Out Boy, there's some expectation that I'm going to be lyrically obtuse. But that song is a straight-faced satire of consumerism.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Long
  • History
  • Song

• We have held forums here at the White House on workplace flexibility, and the first major bill signed into law by President Obama was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Lilly was here a few weeks ago because we were trying very hard to push paycheck fairness through the Congress. Unfortunately, we fell two votes short.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Trying
  • House
  • Law

• If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Funny
  • Coffee
  • Tea

• I don't feel that I'm particularly political. I'm interested in politics; I'll express my view if I feel strongly about something, but humanitarian issues, I think, are slightly different.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Different
  • Think
  • Political

• For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciousness with 'black.' Terms such as 'welfare queen' and 'culture of poverty' became associated uniquely with the social maladies of African Americans in urban ghettos, despite the fact that poor whites outnumbered poor blacks.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Political
  • Black
  • Culture

• I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Singing
  • Learned
  • Records

• Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • You
  • Funny
  • Always

• I love serving in the government. I love serving in the Senate.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Love
  • Government
  • Senate

• The pressure of special interests, the demands of special sections of the state, the needs of friends, all must be subordinated to the good of the people as a whole.

  

  Arthur Capper
  • People
  • Good
  • Friends

• I write from this tight third-person viewpoint, where each chapter is seen through the eyes of one individual character. When I'm writing that character, I become that character and identify with that character.

  

  George R. R. Martin
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Eyes

• I think when you're making an album, as the songs are piling up, one of the good things about it is that you will often write the song that you need.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Up
  • Good
  • Thinking

• If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place and I'll meditate.

  

  Martin Lawrence

• Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.

  

  Cassandra Wilson
  • Doing
  • Forms
  • African

• You don't become indispensable merely because you are different. But the only way to become indispensable is to be different. That's because if you're the same, so are plenty of other people.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Different
  • Plenty