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

• My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.

  

  Ted Olson
  • World
  • Wife
  • Taken

• 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

• When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet their needs, there was nothing beyond that. I did not see all the issues that I have to come to deal with.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Women
  • See
  • Innocent

• I think whenever people talk about the 'Anna Sui woman,' they're talking about someone that's probably kind of more downtown, and there's always like this ambiguity: Is she a good girl, or a bad girl?

  

  Anna Sui
  • People
  • Good
  • She

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

  

  Kevin Keegan

• À partir de cet instant, je n’avais plus un seul pas à faire, le sol marchait pour moi dans ce jardin où depuis si longtemps mes actes avaient cessé d’être accompagnés d’attention volontaire: l’Habitude venait de me prendre dans ses bras et me portait jusqu’à mon lit comme un petit enfant.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Lit

• 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

• I'm a fan of H&M, Topshop, and Forever 21.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Forever

• 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've always said about awards that they're meaningless until you win one, and then they're best thing in the world. The other thing about awards is that they engender respect from areas where it might never have come from without it.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • World
  • Respect
  • Best

• There's no job in show business that's harder than any other job outside show business.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Business
  • Job

• For me, making music in general is a therapeutic process. It began as a way for me to meet friends, and when you're a kid just screaming your face off, you're processing anger; you're processing all the things that happened to you, whether it's mistrust or confusion, whether you've gone through abuse.

  

  Anthony Green Circa Survive
  • Kids
  • Process
  • Faces

• It would be easy to blame Hollywood to say that I was typed and forced to play the same role over and over. For a while, I did. But the truth is that I knew what I was doing. I was enjoying myself. I was making money.

  

  Sal Mineo
  • Money
  • Truth
  • Myself

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

  

  Seth Godin