Seth Godin Quotes

Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths... whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over

Seth Godin

• Effort
• Vision
• Progress
• Path
• Forgiving
• Mediocrity
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• I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Great
  • Support
  • Wall

• The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Water
  • Film
  • Years

• After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Child
  • Interest
  • Labor

• The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • God
  • Men
  • Dream

• Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Way
  • Before
  • DNA

• A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Love
  • Investment
  • Only

• It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Me
  • Play
  • Album

• I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Faith
  • Admitted

• I interned for the Knicks for one year doing community relations, but I absolutely hated it. It was a desk job, and the team was not good at all, and I didn't realize how much that correlated to the office. It was just gray, gloomy days.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Good
  • Job
  • Team

• Now I'm this far up the ladder and I've got so much farther to go with what I want to achieve with it.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Up
  • Want
  • Achieve

• Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Reality
  • Me
  • Social

• Now I see other kids and their parents, and I compare them to my dad. Our dad was a really normal father when he was with us. We would get grounded if we did something bad. He would ground us. He wouldn't call it grounding; he'd just say, 'You're on punishment.' Sometimes we'd be on punishment a lot.

  

  Paris Jackson
  • Kids
  • Bad
  • Father

• The resurrection is In spirit done in thee, As soon as thou from all Thy sins hast set thee free.

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Done
  • Free

• I'd written personal essays before, but never on this scale - never so often and with such, er, honesty. (If by honesty I mean slashing my wrists and hemorrhaging all over the computer screen).

  

  Ayelet Waldman
  • Honesty

• Walk on.

  

  Bruce Lee

• Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.

  

  Paul Wellstone
  • Work
  • Hope

• At the end of the day, I know what my skill set and abilities are, and it's just going to take people a little while to recognize it. Whether that comes around or not, I'm not going to sit here in the corner and pout about it.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • People

• The world is not such a large place, and we have more in common with one another than we might think.

  

  Donna Langley
  • World

• I think everybody can be as fit as they can be for their particular body if they work out and eat healthily.

  

  Mel B Spice Girls
  • Work

• It may be my rather puritanical upbringing at odds with my inborn laziness that makes me feel guilty at the end of the day, unless I am able to point at some achievement. But this need be no more impressive than cooking a meal or going for a long walk.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Long
  • May
  • Cooking

• Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way, and there are many biologists and physicists of the first order who are like that.

  

  Jonathan Miller
  • Political
  • Spiritual
  • Vision

• As a rule, I am lazy and prefer to avoid anything resembling work, and research feels like work, as opposed to my strong suit, which is sitting around making things up.

  

  Arthur Phillips
  • Up
  • Work
  • Strong

• Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths... whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over

  

  Seth Godin
  • Effort
  • Vision
  • Progress