Seth Godin Quotes

My mother is a ball of fire in the world, and I love that about her. But what I have learned from my stepdad is something as important, which is patience and compassion. Because when you are living with someone else, those two qualities go a long way.

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

I've always found that you can enjoy your life a lot more if you can get on with people. If I don't get on with someone, I don't necessarily go out of my way to be best friends, but you learn as you grow up how to get on with people.

It's more important to get along with people than to get ahead of them.

The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.

If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn't know how to break bad news, how to sympathise, how to be a friend or a lover, because I wouldn't have any idea what was going on in anybody else's mind.

I get along with everybody.

The older you get, the more you start to realize that you can't win an argument in a relationship. You can't win a fight with your woman. Because if you lose, you lose. And if you win, you lose.

Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.

How do you conduct an intimate relationship where no one ever loses it? Where no one ever lashes out, where no one ever smacks anyone in the mouth?

Work is a different type of pursuit than relationships. You can't take the skills that you know that have gotten you into that great school or into that great job and apply them to your relationships.

Even married people have differences of opinion, I'm told.

Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.

All relationships are a learning experience, even ones you continue to be in. If you don't see them as that, then that's a problem.

Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?

I have a good relationship with the world. But I don't know what the trick is to maintaining it.

Continuing to listen and grow is important because we get into bad habits in relationships.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

It's been 32 years of learning to communicate. We have had ups and downs.

Women are better than man at valuing relationships and much better than men in terms of contributing towards a relationship.

Communication will bring understanding and understanding will cause harmonious mutual relationships which can establish peace and stability.

Women are thought to be more social, more interested in relationships and connections, better at multi-tasking.

The thing that I regret is not having better relationships with a lot of people. Being the hard-nosed guy that I was, I think I could've come off a little bit better in my relationships with a lot of people, and I didn't.

Sensitivity doesn't necessarily make you easy to get on with.