Seth Godin Quotes

Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.

Seth Godin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 10, 1960

Topics

PeopleWantNormalUsProfitable

I wrote 'Don't Look Back' in November 2011, and when I wrote the novel, it wasn't contracted, so there was a freedom in that - no expectations or anything like that. It was also my first contemporary novel I'd written and sold, which was to Disney/Hyperion in January of 2012.

Jennifer Armentrout

FreedomJanuaryExpectationsLook

We have our own values; we build our own special, our JEWISH life - and we are proud, so very proud.

Meir Kahane

LifeProudValuesBuildSpecialOwn

When our culture shifts, it tends to overcorrect, throwing out everything associated with an era we've moved past, rather than saving what was good and combining it with what is new.

Jeffrey Kluger

GoodCulturePastNewEverything

In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.

Stephen Carter

LifePeopleBlackClassRealMiddle

The material I did was lasting material. A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything, but I was in the studio. The biggest factor is the material you choose. You hunt, you cut.

Slim Whitman

PeopleThoughtDoingYouChooseCut

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

Desmond Tutu

GodPeopleFindHeavenStandards

It requires an effort of logical acrobatics to believe that carnage of innocents is an instrument for freedom and elections are a symbol of deception and repression!

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

FreedomEffortBelieveDeception

The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

FearLieParentsAnxietySeeingMay

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

WorkHard WorkGoodPlansIntentions

My charitable donations go to educational efforts, such as Teach for America, Vanderbilt University, Berkshire School.

Thomas Peterffy

SchoolAmericaGoTeachUniversity

Half the bands I guarantee wouldn't at this point want Nuno to open for them.

Nuno Bettencourt

WantOpenPointHalfGuaranteeThem

I am always most excited about the newest material I am doing, and other songs get put back on the shelf or dropped.

Maria Muldaur

I AmDoingBackAlwaysExcitedGet

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