Seth Godin Quotes

Action or inaction are both forms of leadership and standard setting.

Seth Godin

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• From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.

  

  Rain
  • Action
  • Star
  • Hero

• I've heard people tell me there's never been a gay character like Agron on TV before, and some fans have even thanked me because they now feel like they have a gay action hero, and it's very endearing to hear that kind of stuff. But I just played him the way he was and tried to do right by the character.

  

  Dan Feuerriegel
  • People
  • Character
  • Action

• I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Action
  • Star
  • Actor

• Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Action
  • Thought
  • Human

• The ancestor of every action is a thought.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Action
  • Thought
  • Every

• In 'Rangoon', I play an action star of the 1940s.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Action
  • Play
  • Star

• In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Action
  • Movement
  • Beliefs

• I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Way
  • Action
  • Far

• It's Will Ferrell, he does Will Ferrell movies. But if you really look at it, he tries to do something different with each one, whether it's an action cop movie like 'The Other Guys' or doing 'Talladega Nights' going into red state America or 'Casa de Mi Padre' or 'Stranger Than Fiction,' which is more of a drama.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Different
  • America
  • Movie

• If I could remake any Eighties project, it would be less an action flick than a character-driven drama with a rich story to tell.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Character
  • Action
  • Drama

• I don't mind running; I don't mind taking a few knocks. But hopefully, it's just not 'Sam's an action dude.' That, to me, is not what I wanted. I wanted to bring a sense of weight and emotionality of doing Australian films and bring that into a bigger blockbuster, so you're not just kind of grunting and groaning and running around.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Mind
  • Action
  • Hopefully

• Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Society
  • Action
  • Responsibility

• Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Action
  • More
  • Preparation

• When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Law
  • Community
  • Action

• Whenever a partnership is formed, there has to be a benefit to the partners; otherwise, they don't form it.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Form
  • Benefit
  • Partnership

• I don't mind doing action or kung fu, but I'm also really happy to do something dramatic. I'd like to show that a Chinese girl doesn't have to do crazy martial arts to get the part.

  

  Zhu Zhu
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Girl

• We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Life
  • Action
  • Pain

• You can't really do a big character in an action film; you're already suspending your disbelief in the action, then to suspend your disbelief in the character is too much.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Character
  • Action
  • Too Much

• Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

  

  Bradley Whitford
  • Life
  • High
  • Hope

• In the start-up setting and in most companies, the output is action-oriented. You need to be getting things done and making decisions, often with limited information.

  

  Andrew Yan
  • Up
  • Done
  • Action

• Since God is the one who calls people to their work, the worker becomes a steward who serves God.

  

  Leland Ryken
  • People
  • Work
  • God

• One of the myths you see in entrepreneurship is that people have this dream one night, wake up the next morning, and start building it. It's actually much more of an iterative process.

  

  John Collison
  • People
  • Up
  • Dream

• Spiders - the way they move freaks me out. It's so malevolent.

  

  Matt Smith Poison

• Action or inaction are both forms of leadership and standard setting.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Action
  • Form
  • Standards