Seth Godin Quotes

It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be.

The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it.

we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today

No matter what happens in the future, no matter where our paths take us, this moment will be ours.

The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.

All that we were has led us to where we are, but tells us little of where we’re going. Memories are a weight you can never shrug off.

The way to feel better about your own situation is to improve someone else’s circumstances.

You could either be trapped by what was going on around you, or you could find a way out. I think that everything, even if it is scary or good, comes into our life to help elevate and expand us as human beings.

Delsarte tells me that Mozart stole outrageously from Galuppi, in the same way, I suppose, that Molière stole from anybody anywhere, if he found something work taking. I said that what was Mozart had not been stolen from Galuppi, or from anyone else for that matter.

It's counterproductive to blither on about "the" future. It's always somebody's future, and we're not who we used to be.

What does education do, what does it have to offer, when deprived of its necessary partner, the future, and face instead with - no future at all?

Life is a series of adjustments; You can make changes along the way, but if you dodn't start moving forward you'll never get anywhere!

It is way less certain to be a wonderful business in the future. The threat is alternative mediums of information. Every newspaper is scrambling to parlay their existing advantage into dominance on the Internet. But it is way less sure [that this will occur] than the certainty 20 years ago that the basic business would grow steadily, so there's more downside risk. The perfectly fabulous economics of this business could become grievously impaired.

There's no such thing as a foreseeable future.

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.

Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed.

I know that's really horrible, but that's how I do it in my head. I'm going to die. It doesn't matter. I don't matter. I'm a grain of sand. As a grain of sand, I may as well go out and relate to people and enjoy my short time on this planet that I have. Who knows what's coming next?

The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.

Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.

What we take for granted might not be here for our children.

Life is not so simple. There are many futures. The life of a single person is like a great tree: every branch, every twig, every leaf is a possible future.

Nothing so offends the doctrinaire intellectual as our ability to achieve the momentous in a matter-of-fact way, unblessed by words.

Societal transformation isn't going to happen in one month, one year, or even one lifetime. But we see it happen person by person in front of us, and we don't have to worry about the future if we're taking care of the present. In some sense, that's the best insurance policy we can have.

The world is continually changing. I think in some ways it's changing in a very positive way.

Think of things not as they are, but as they might be. Don't merely dream- but create.