Seth Godin Quotes

Way more productive, I think, to push yourself to be more in the world, not to encourage yourself to hide.

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• In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • America
  • Failure

• It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Today
  • Education

• When you're first reading the script and thinking about playing the part, it's slightly daunting. It's easy to question, 'Is an audience going to like me? And is that my job?'

  

  Laura Dern
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Reading

• Although more than 500 million maritime containers move around the world each year, accounting for 90 per cent of international trade, only 2 per cent are inspected. Strengthening customs and immigration systems is essential.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Year
  • Immigration

• If I don't play well, then it's not the end of the world, because we all learn in tennis that there's always next week.

  

  Laura Robson
  • World
  • End
  • Tennis

• The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Back
  • Ant

• I think when you're young, you're a lot more open-minded, and sometimes you're a lot more perceptive about what's going on in the world.

  

  Zendaya
  • World
  • Think
  • Sometimes

• The Human Rights Organisation deceives the world by calling itself a human rights council.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • World
  • Rights
  • Human Rights

• Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • World
  • Film
  • Communist

• I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • World
  • Different
  • Way

• In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Up
  • World
  • Growing

• There's nothing I love more in the world than layering voices.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • World
  • Voices
  • Layering

• Before the camera, you only had secondhand takes - someone had to tell you what they saw or draw a picture of it or sing a song. Because of the camera, sometimes to our horror, we now know everything that happens in the world - things that before we were sheltered from.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • World
  • Song
  • Picture

• But if I were to sum up who Barack Obama is and how he plans to meet this moment with one word, that word would be 'responsibility.' Responsibility to each other, our families, our communities, our country, and our world.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Up
  • World
  • Country

• The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • Men
  • Happy

• The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • World
  • True
  • Quality

• They were the largest semiconductor maker in the world up until about 1980. I'm not sure that that can be re-gained again, but their progress in the last few years has been very impressive.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Up
  • World
  • Progress

• The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • World
  • Art
  • Painting

• I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way human life and relationships could be, in some sort of weird, ideal world, but they never are. So you're constantly being shown this garbage and you can't get there.

  

  Charlie Kaufman
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Capitalism has not always existed in the world and will not always exist in the world.

  

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
  • World

• Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world - only to serve the People of Israel.

  

  Ovadia Yosef
  • People
  • World
  • Place

• Technology has allowed the world of men in our society to separate itself from the sight and the sounds of killing; from the horror of it, but not from the killing. It must be easy to kill from a roomful of fluorescent lights and wash-and-wear shirts.

  

  Caryl Rivers
  • World
  • Technology
  • Easy

• My greatest enemies are Women and the Sea. These things I hate. Women because they are weak and stupid and live in the shadow of men and are nothing compared to them, and the Sea because it has always frustrated me, destroying what I have built, washing away what I have left, wiping clean the marks I have made.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Men
  • Women
  • Live

• Way more productive, I think, to push yourself to be more in the world, not to encourage yourself to hide.

  

  Seth Godin
  • World
  • Thinking