Seth Godin Quotes

Things that look like shortcuts are actually detours (disguised as less work).

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• I do things right. No shortcuts.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Things
  • Right
  • Shortcuts

• Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Black
  • Looks
  • Black-and-white

• My looks have changed. I have laugh lines - not wrinkles.

  

  Iman
  • Looks
  • Laugh
  • Wrinkles

• My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Looks
  • Rain
  • Face

• What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Nice
  • Looks
  • Concrete

• Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips music of what makes it exciting.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Music
  • Forever

• It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Perfect

• I do look upon all of life as an episode - which is why the people around me are probably on guard!

  

  Bette Midler
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• She looks at me. She does. She.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • She
  • Looks

• There's nothing on earth to do here but look at the view and eat. You can imagine the result since I do not like to look at views.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Earth
  • Looks
  • Views

• If you look around the room, and you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.

  

  Lorne Michaels
  • Looks
  • Persons
  • Ifs

• Huizi would say, never look back to the past. Never regret. Even if there is emptiness ahead, never look back.

  

  Xiaolu Guo
  • Past
  • Looks
  • Regret

• The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it'll be paraded round Sotheby's by people wearing white gloves.

  

  Banksy
  • People
  • Painting
  • Looks

• Elijah looks angelic but his beauty of spirit is what makes his Frodo leap out of the screen. Unalloyed goodness is one of the most difficult attributes to act.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Spirit
  • Looks
  • Frodo

• I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Looks

• We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• If you look at sort of how politics has divided itself here in this country, the big divide right now is between urban areas, which have become increasingly Democratic, and rural or exurban areas that feel as if they're being ignored.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Looks
  • Being Ignored

• The closer you look at something, the more complex it seems to be.

  

  Vint Cerf
  • Looks
  • Seems
  • Complexes

• My real life was when I was just a working guy. You know, it's OK to head out for Wonderful. But on your way to Wonderful, you're gonna have to pass through All Right. And when you get to All Right, take a good look around, and get used to it, because that may be as far as you're gonna go.

  

  Bill Withers
  • Life
  • May
  • Guy

• I take my dog Tinkerbell seriously. I take my job seriously. But I don't take myself all that seriously.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Job
  • Myself
  • Dog

• The best way to keep your daughter out of hot water is to put some dishes in it.

  

  Robert Phillips
  • Way
  • Water
  • Daughter

• Hate and fear breed a poison in the blood, which if continued, affects eyes, ears, nose and the organs of digestion. Therefore, it is not wise to hear and remember the unkind things others might say about you.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Hate
  • Blood
  • Poison

• Things that look like shortcuts are actually detours (disguised as less work).

  

  Seth Godin
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