Seth Godin Quotes

All good ideas are terrible... Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part.

Seth Godin

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• I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • House
  • Feeling
  • Drawing

• Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Space

• I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Time
  • Career
  • Day

• Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Believe
  • Age
  • Voting

• The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Nature
  • Space
  • Creativity

• I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Up
  • Environment
  • Mostly

• I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.

  

  B. B. King
  • Different
  • Love
  • Like

• I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Know

• Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Song
  • Internet
  • Honesty

• On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.

  

  Gary Larson
  • School
  • High
  • Guy

• When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Way
  • Weird
  • Pride

• If you just did a horror tone throughout an entire movie you almost, as an audience, can get a little bit used to it. But if you're laughing one minute and, you know, somebody's doing something quite horrific the next minute, it's a little more shocking.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Doing

• I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Great
  • Black
  • Woman

• I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Earth
  • Environment
  • Childhood

• I did Polyester, and I don't regret one minute of it. It was wonderful.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • Regret
  • Wonderful
  • Minute

• What I do is I always try to educate myself about my neighbors, about the people I meet.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Myself
  • Try

• I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.

  

  L.A. Reid
  • Kid
  • Brown
  • James

• He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Help
  • Save
  • Consent

• I found that so many people in the music business started out as metalheads in the Eighties - whether they're songwriters, producers, engineers or executives, and no matter what they look like, with short hair, suits or whatever. I feel like my generation of metal kids really tends to populate the music world to a large extent.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• I don't mind fans coming up in a friendly, respectful way. That's all part of the fun of being a top tennis player. But if people take pictures without permission, particularly if my children are in the shot, I feel uncomfortable.

  

  Roger Federer
  • People
  • Mind
  • Children

• I know why I'm here. I know why I was placed in music, and it's not by coincidence.

  

  Daystar Peterson
  • Music
  • Why

• When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Process
  • To Be
  • Involved

• As an artist or musician, you want to be remembered for the music you make.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Want
  • Artist

• All good ideas are terrible... Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Realizing