Seth Godin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
-
You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
-
I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
-
I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
-
The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
-
I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.
-
A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.
-
You've got to live in the moment. When it's over, it's over.
-
The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
-
It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
-
The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition.
-
I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing - my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes.
-
Let's just say the genes were there for me to excel athletically.
-
Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.
-
Well, I'm certainly glad that I was nominated for an Oscar. There is certainly a respect that comes with that nod. Also, a compliment that comes with it, too. Not that I really know what I'm doing. In a lot of ways I feel like some child on set, or like a kid that snuck in the back door.
-
My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.
-
As I was coming out of the closet, our car was hurtling over an embankment.
-
France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.
-
If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.
-
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
-
We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.
-
"Look," I said, "We knew Jason and Becky would be back, the break would end. This isn't a surprise, it's what's supposed to happen. It's what we wanted. Right?" "Is it?" he asked. "Is it what you want?" Whether he intended it to be or not, this was the final question, the last Truth. If I said what I really thought, I was opening myself up for a hurt bigger than I could even imagine. I didn't have it in me. We changed and altered so many rules, but it was this one, the only one when we'd started, that I would break. "Yes," I said.
-
There's a sureness to good writing even when what's being written about doesn't make all that much sense. It's the sureness of the so-called seat of an accomplished horseback rider or a sailor coming about in a strong wind. The words have both muscle and grace, familiarity and surprise.
-
Surprise comes from defying expectations.
