Seth Godin Quotes

The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity.

Seth Godin

• Fear
• Mediocrity
• Industrial
• Compliance

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• I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Fear
  • Myself
  • Goddess

• You've got to be taught to hate and fear.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
  • You
  • Fear
  • Hate

• There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Two

• Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • People
  • Work
  • Women

• Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Fear
  • Sometimes
  • Wrong

• Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Heart
  • Together
  • Fear

• The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Fear
  • Challenge
  • Doors

• In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Fear
  • Contrast
  • Dissent

• I think the media is a fear-mongering operation. They love to rile their viewership up or to scare them.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Up
  • Love
  • Think

• With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Fear
  • Integrity
  • Guilt

• When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • Fear
  • For Him

• The biggest obstacle to wealth is fear. People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you'll only achieve small things.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • People
  • Fear
  • Small

• Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • You
  • Fear
  • Failure

• I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Up
  • Believe
  • School

• Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Fear
  • Argue
  • Dodge

• Running anywhere, blindly, hating the echo of her footsteps in the silence of the empty streets, Florentine fled from her own fear, fled from herself.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Fear
  • Running
  • Silence

• One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Long
  • Fear
  • Spiritual

• What we tried to do, out of mutual loneliness, was make more out of the relationship than it could support. Then it becomes pretend, and you are both saying things cribbed from half-forgotten books and plays. So the structure slowly topples over, like vanilla ice cream piled too high. And the end of it there was an obscure impulse to shake hands.

  

  John D. MacDonald
  • High
  • Support
  • Relationship

• People always say: 'You're a comedian, tell us a joke.' They don't say: 'You're an MP, tell us a lie.'

  

  Bob Monkhouse
  • People

• I'd ask myself, 'What do I think is really unjust?' That should be a starting point for how you engage with the world.

  

  Chelsea Clinton
  • World

• Whether I'm running on the beach without my shirt or whether I'm going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner - I don't choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.

  

  Matthew McConaughey
  • Life
  • Real
  • Kids

• There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Fear
  • Confidence
  • Actor

• The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Fear
  • Mediocrity
  • Industrial