Seth Godin Quotes

Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.

Seth Godin

• Fear
• Habit
• Overcoming
• Opposites
• Inertia

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• In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • Ideas
  • More

• The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Question
  • Matter
  • Everyone

• Getting toxic lead out of gasoline, the oil industry shouted, would cost a dollar a gallon. It turned out to cost just a penny a gallon to protect hundreds of thousands of kids from lead-induced brain damage.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Kids
  • Brain
  • Lead

• In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge respect for each other.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • Respect
  • Fight

• Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • People
  • Want
  • Fool

• The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Life
  • Character
  • Kids

• Cricket pays well, so a lot of people are naturally drawn towards the game. But to carve a niche in non-cricket sports is not easy. So state governments need to be proactive. Indians need to be made aware of the power of an Olympic medal. It should be treated at par with an Oscars or a Nobel Prize.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • People
  • Power
  • Game

• The appeal of the Golden Age heroes for me is their simplicity, even their naivety - they represent the fundamental building blocks of the whole superhero genre, whether it's a 'super' man able to lift cars, or a vigilante who terrorises criminals at night like Batman.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Age
  • Night
  • Man

• I am only this successful because I'm so good at grounding myself.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Successful
  • Grounding

• Mrs. Montagu has dropt me. Now, Sir, there are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • People
  • Wish

• The perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum. The universe is hostile.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Universe

• I crossed the tracks and sought out White prey. I did this consciously, deliberately, willfully, methodically ... Rape was an insurrectionary act. It delighted me that I was defying and trampling upon the White man's law ... and that I was defiling his women ...

  

  Eldridge Cleaver
  • Women
  • Law

• I find that life is easier when it is just a blurWith no details to confuse who or what or where I wasSo when the ending comes the full regret will be obscure

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Life
  • Regret

• After twelve years in the major leagues, I do not feel I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes. I believe that any system which produces that result violates my basic rights as a citizen and is inconsistent with the laws of the United States and of the several States.

  

  Curt Flood
  • Believe
  • Wishes

• I want to be scary, boring, philosophical, funny, touching.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Funny
  • Scary
  • Philosophical

• I'm a painfully slow reader. And to this day, I mean, I love reading, and I'm very careful - very selective about what I read because I don't read very fast and, therefore, not a great deal.

  

  Philip Schultz
  • Great
  • Reading

• I have been a Jack Albertson fan forever.

  

  Keith Coogan
  • Forever

• Of all sweet passions Shame is the loveliest.

  

  Bosie
  • Passion
  • Sweet
  • Shame

• I've never had that fear of going against the grain.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Fear
  • Grain

• Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Court
  • Just Because

• Oh no, the dead have risen and they're voting Republican.

  

  Yeardley Smith
  • Dead
  • Republican
  • Voting

• It's hard to stop loving someone on cue, especially when he's still so kind and loving toward you.

  

  Kristan Higgins
  • Stop

• Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Fear
  • Habit
  • Overcoming