Seth Godin Quotes

After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.

Seth Godin

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• If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Fight

• When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • World
  • May

• The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Culture
  • Change
  • Ideas

• Even in large corporations, smaller ideas may not get enough resources.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • May
  • Ideas
  • Enough

• It's so inspiring to be around other people who have ideas you haven't thought of, and all of a sudden you're like, 'Wow! That's so amazing!' I definitely want everything I do to just get better and better.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Ideas

• We live in a multi-cultural society far more open to international ideas. If you'd told me 20 years ago I'd drive through Bury and see someone sitting outside a cafe drinking a latte, I'd have laughed. In fact, I wouldn't have even known what a latte was.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Live
  • Society
  • Me

• You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ideas and information. But no more.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • People
  • Important
  • Ideas

• I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Ideas
  • Politics
  • Revolution

• When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • History
  • Ideas
  • Graduation

• I am going to produce a movie of my own. I am not going to stick to the time-tested formulae of Hindi cinema. I want to make a film for the present generation. So there will be a lot of new faces in the film.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Movie
  • Film
  • Generation

• No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Ideas
  • Idea
  • Born

• A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Ideas
  • More
  • Patterns

• I'm not really a knob-twiddler. I always work with an engineer; I'm not super hands-on when it comes to mixing boards and computers. I'm much more about what I'm hearing and what it needs to be like. I deal with songs and ideas and instruments.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Work
  • Ideas
  • Computers

• Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same time, physicists need to be inventive, to have ideas, to have some fantasy.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Time
  • Art
  • Ideas

• Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone's going to want to listen to that, but it should exist.

  

  Beck
  • Want
  • Ideas
  • Exist

• The difference that a drama group or a cinema club can make to a small village or a town. It opens people up to ideas, potential about themselves that really, in a way, education often fails to. It's a way of drawing a community together.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • People
  • Up
  • Together

• I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.

  

  Jack Steinberger
  • Ideas
  • Generation
  • Physics

• My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Ideas
  • Enough
  • Process

• I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness.

  

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • Ideas
  • Wonder
  • Tree

• When we started Angels Airwaves, we wanted to produce our art on different mediums, but the film was an ambitious one because we actually didn't go into it thinking we could make a big feature film.

  

  Tom DeLonge Angels & Airwaves
  • Film
  • Produce
  • Angels & Airwaves

• The fun for me is knowing what the other person is saying and what my character would be thinking at that time. On the stage you get the chance to do all that, to analyze and build a part, to react, to contribute something no one else can-not the author, not even the director.

  

  Barry Nelson
  • Character
  • Chance
  • Author

• Yes, yes, resign yourself to what you are, each on his own path.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Resign

• After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Ideas
  • Produce
  • Select