Seth Godin Quotes

We know what you want to accomplish... The real question is, 'what are you willing to push through the dip for?' What are you willing to stand up for, bleed for, commit to and generally be unreasonable about? Because that's what's going to actually get done.

Seth Godin

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• A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Real
  • Book
  • U.S.

• I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Life
  • Real
  • Training

• Real luxury is having the time to read endless stories in bed with my children. And I get that all the time. I'm so blessed.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Children
  • Real

• So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Real
  • Interesting
  • Thought

• My dad likes to recite the story of 'Pablo the Donkey' before dinner to teach us the real meaning of Christmas. Every year, it's the same; every year, we cringe!

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Real
  • Dad
  • Same

• Reminded of what a diet really is, I began eating more slowly, being more conscious of when I was full. I started to enjoy my buckwheat bread with goat cheese and pureed butternut-squash soup as a response to real hunger.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Real
  • Enjoy
  • Hunger

• The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.

  

  Zac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Music
  • Real

• I don't like to just talk about nothing, or less than nothing. If it's something interesting, I'm fine with it, but, 'Hey, Zack, how is your day?' People ask that, and somebody actually tells them what happened in their day? I don't have any real interest in that.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • People
  • Real
  • Interesting

• Real practice means working on stuff you're not good at. Real practice is about butting your head against the wall repeatedly until you get it right.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Good
  • Real
  • Practice

• The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Real
  • Power
  • Exercise

• I understand that sometimes when you're young it's difficult to remember the difference between real life and what is part of fantasy.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • Life
  • Real
  • Remember

• Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Live
  • Women
  • Real

• Hopefully, people will rediscover real country music. After all, it's in my blood.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• When you play a character, you get to see the world through their eyes. Whether it's a fictional world or a real world, you do get to see somebody else's point of view, whether he's a good guy or a bad guy.

  

  Faran Tahir
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• One woman came up to me at a lecture and observed that I was much fatter than on television; I think I look better onscreen than in real life. It's the lights.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• There's a real sense of camaraderie with sitcoms.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Real
  • Sense
  • Camaraderie

• No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Time
  • Real
  • Revolution

• For me, it's a matter of balance. Living inside your head and experiencing real things - both are important.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Important
  • Real
  • Me

• 'An' they chased him 'n' never could catch him 'cause they didn't know what he looked like, an' Atticus, when they finally saw him, why he hadn't done any of those things... Atticus, he was real nice...' 'Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.'

  

  Harper Lee
  • People
  • Real
  • Done

• Actions speak louder than words, and it's no more true than with your kids.

  

  Brad Pitt
  • Kids
  • True
  • Words

• I drive old cars, all my Patagonia clothes are years and years old, I hardly have anything new. I try to lead a very simple life. I am not a consumer of anything. And I much prefer sleeping on somebody's floor than in a motel room.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Life
  • Simple
  • Clothes

• If rejection destroys your self-esteem, you're letting others hold you as an emotional hostage.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Emotional
  • Rejection
  • Hostage

• If you have a piece by Bach, he often develops the piece to such a high level that you can hardly do much more to it. But Saint-Luc wrote very simple baroque music, and so if you do not embellish it, it just falls apart. It's way too simple.

  

  David Russell
  • Music
  • High
  • Simple

• We know what you want to accomplish... The real question is, 'what are you willing to push through the dip for?' What are you willing to stand up for, bleed for, commit to and generally be unreasonable about? Because that's what's going to actually get done.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Real
  • Accomplish
  • Commit