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

• What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now. The philosopher, of all people, must, I think, be aware of the tension between what he claims to achieve and the reality in which he finds himself.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • People
  • Reality

• The street is where we all learn. I played organized football growing up as well, but when that was over, I went right to the street. I remember twisting my ankles, breaking my thumb, I hurt everything when I was little playing street ball.

  

  Champ Bailey
  • Remember
  • Hurt
  • Learn

• Why does everybody thing things are always contractual? I saw a shitload of questions and thought "better keep these answers short or I'll never get to all of these".

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Why
  • Answers
  • Doe

• Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Dangerous
  • Worth

• My biggest worry is that we have to keep making good music, and I want to do well, but I wonder if I will be able to.

  

  Suga BTS
  • Music

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

  

  Seth Godin
  • World
  • Thinking