Seth Godin Quotes

If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Your life is about everyone whose life you touch, and it is about the way in which you touch them.

A life isn't significant except for its impact on others' lives.

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

No matter how brief an encounter you have with anybody, you both change.

Everything that we experience every day leaves a long-lasting impression.

A film is not going to change the world. But if it can do that to individuals on an individual level, I think it's a magnificent movie.

Every person passing through this life will unknowingly leave something and take something away. Most of this “something” cannot be seen or heard or numbered or scientifically detected or counted. It’s what we leave in the minds of other people and what they leave in ours. Memory. The census doesn’t count it. Nothing counts without it.

I always like seeing people transforming themselves, in whatever way that might be, and a different accent is part of that.

It's interesting when you go out into the world and see which of your roles have affected people.

A woman can't change a man because she loves him. A man changes himself because he loves her.

What defines someone's music taste is their teens and early 20s. It's that combination of your sexual awakening and the music of the time, it fixes you forever.

There is a difficulty with only one person changing. People call that person a great saint or a great mystic or a great leader, and they say, 'Well, he's different from me - I could never do it.' What's wrong with most people is that they have this block - they feel they could never make a difference, and therefore, they never face the possibility, because it is too disturbing, too frightening.

People will never forget how you made them feel.

[In the moment of reading writer and reader] are both briefly their best selves, or at least better selves. A flawed human being writes something and 60 years later a reader picks up the book and something in them rises to meet it.

The smallest of disciplines, practiced every day, start an incredible process that can change our lives forever.

Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.

Many times I feel different like a different person.

Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.

When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain ideas. It is partly for this reason that I don't mix much in literary circles, because I know from experience that once I have met and spoken to anyone I shall never again be able to feel any intellectual brutality towards him, even when I feel I ought to - like the Labour M.P.s who get patted on the back by dukes and are lost forever more.

I'm profoundly changed. There's a bittersweet emotion that I feel from playing this role. . . . I want the world to be different because I was here. However lofty or crazy or delusional that may sound, I want people's lives to be better because I was here.

It's strange how we always want other people to feel what we feel. It must be a basic human drive. Misery loves company, right? Or when you see a movie that you love, don't you want to drag all your friends to see it as well? Because it's only good the second time if it's the first time for somebody else—as if their experience somehow resonates inside of you.

Man is much more than a 'rational being' and lives more by sympathies and impressions than by conclusions. It darkens his eyes and dries up the wells of his humanity to be forever in search of doctrine. We need wholesome, experiencing na­tures, I dare affirm, much more than we need sound reasoning.

The crowds themselves are meaningless. The thing that counts is what happens to the hearts of the people.