Seth Godin Quotes

You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome.

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• When I was 16, I filmed an episode of 'Full House' where my family goes to Disney World. I remember putting on baggy overalls just to hide my stomach. When I watched it, I was pretty disappointed and bummed out looking at myself... I didn't feel good about my own body.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • World
  • Good
  • Family

• Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Time
  • Believe
  • America

• A runner needs not just to be skinny but - more specifically - to have skinny calves and ankles, because every extra pound carried on your extremities costs more than a pound carried on your torso. That's why shaving even a few ounces off a pair of running shoes can have a significant effect.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Why
  • Running
  • Shoes

• If you think about work, it's just this endlessly fascinating subject. We spend at least half of our waking hours working. So it becomes this incredible window into a whole variety of things: who we are human beings, how the economy works, how people relate to each other, how stuff is made, how the world spins on its axis.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• When we analyze this war in a materialistic way and ask when is it going to end and who will be the winner and the loser, it means that we do not see the endgame.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • War
  • End
  • Loser

• The idea was always to be an actor.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Always
  • Idea
  • Actor

• The Sino-American competition involves two significant realities that distinguish it from the Cold War: neither party is excessively ideological in its orientation; and both parties recognize that they really need mutual accommodation.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • American
  • War
  • Party

• Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Work
  • Living
  • Work Hard

• I don't think there is anyone bigger or smaller than Diego Maradona!

  

  Kevin Keegan

• I really don't go out every night to red-carpet events.

  

  Pauly Shore
  • Night
  • Red

• The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

  

  Desiderius Erasmus
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• My goal is to break three hours in a marathon.

  

  Frank Shorter

• Success is like food caught in your teeth: much more noticeable when it happens to other people. If it happens to you, other people have to take you aside and say something.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • People
  • Success
  • Food

• There are still parts of the country where it's hard: when you realize you're gay, it's like a death sentence.

  

  Jane Lynch
  • Country
  • Death
  • Gay

• I could never rap, personally. I can't even wrap presents.

  

  Chris Colfer
  • Rap

• I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that.

  

  James Carl Inkanish, Jr.
  • Kids
  • Pretty
  • Career

• When you work for Bruckheimer, you don't get it any better. He's the ultimate producer. I've had the good fortune of working with some great producers over the years.

  

  Joe Pantoliano
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• I'm very goal oriented.

  

  David Schwimmer

• When I was coming up with the Hal Hartley films, I was cast as a no one. I had no name visibility. I was working at a downtown post-performance-art, avant garde theater company and doing a couple things on television. But I was a total unknown.

  

  Martin Donovan
  • Up
  • Art
  • Couple

• Disability, in general, hasn't been included in the conversation about inclusivity.

  

  Jason Winston George

• The anarch, as I have expounded elsewhere, is the pendant to the monarch; he is as sovereign as the monarch, and also freer since he does not have to rule.

  

  Ernst Junger
  • Rule
  • Sovereign
  • Monarch

• I was a very good girl for a long time, that's what really drew me to acting. The stage was the perfect place to be outrageous, to be sad, to be angry, to be all these different things.

  

  Joan Allen
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• Honestly, I don't look at it as work because I have way too much fun on set to actually classify it as work. I know a lot of people who are like, 'Man, acting's so much work.' And I'm like, 'No, it's not. I'm having fun.' And I want to keep doing that. I don't ever want to give up acting.

  

  Billy Unger
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome.

  

  Seth Godin