Seth Godin Quotes

People are always throwing things at me that I've said and I say that I didn't mean anything.

I feel like people didn't understand where I was about to go. And a lot of people still don't.

It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.

I'm just totally fascinated by people.

Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models.

I find humans tremendously interesting.

I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that.

No one is out to get you. It's just that... people are monkeys.

I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.

I'm just incredibly interested in people.

Things become complicated if there are enough people to complexify them.

The best way to know people is to work with them.

People fascinate the hell out of me. I never get tired of watching people, listening to people. The best part is not getting up in front of people but meeting people.

The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.

I have my own way of dividing people, as I suppose most of us have. There are those whom I can talk to, and those whom I can't.

The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.

We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.

fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.

Our intentions tend to be much more real to us than our actions, and this can lead to a great deal of misunderstanding with other people, to whom our actions tend to be much more real than our intentions.

You never can expect what people's reactions are going to be. You can only hope that everyone feels the way that you do.

When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one's voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear. One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious.

I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all. As far as I can see, people read it when they were half stoned and listening to the TV. Then they come back and say gee, it's impossible to figure out what's going on in a story.

It reveals that people are confusing." Rovender corrected her. "Not Confusing. Complex.