Seth Godin Quotes

If you take action, you will be judged. There's no way around it. The alternative, of course, is much safer. To be ignored. Up to you.

Seth Godin

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• I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Travel
  • Map
  • iPhone

• The glorification of sisters, mothers as the selfless Indian women who will do 'agni pariksha' and the one who sees her own betterment only in the betterment of their husbands and fathers, that has to stop. It's very regressive.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Women
  • Stop
  • Betterment

• 'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Important
  • Way
  • Actor

• We are all so busy and constantly trying to save time and balance everything.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Balance

• After almost 30 years of playing this sport, I've learned something. I've learned that, no matter what happens, or happened... or where you are, or where you've been... at the end of the day: tennis is tennis. It's always, always tennis. And there's nothing better.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Day
  • Better
  • End

• One should also remember that the U.S. is the biggest exporter of torture weapons in the world, though the U.K. is not far behind in the league table. We never stopped, even under Robin Cook's supposedly ethical foreign policy.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • World
  • Remember
  • Ethical

• The battles after the wars are over can be the toughest; there's no longer the public interest that accompanies, for good and for ill, the start of combat.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Good
  • Start
  • Battles

• I actually was a musician in college, a composer and singer, and really intended to be the second coming of Leonard Bernstein when I got out.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • College
  • Really
  • Singer

• Tell me, George, if you had it to do all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Fall

• I don't party, I don't get drunk and I don't have affairs. So all my passion goes into my work.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Work
  • Party
  • Passion

• Παύροις γὰρ ἀνδρῶν ἐστι συγγενὲς τόδε,φίλον τὸν εὐτυχοῦντ' ἄνευ φθόνων σέβειν.

  

  Aeschylus

• 'Oh yes,' said the Emperor. 'That’s what you have to do when you approach the Celestial Presence-that’s me.''Well, I’m afraid that no cat in the world ever bowed to an emperor,' said Jason. 'They just won’t do it, Ichigo, and you’re wasting your time if you try to force them. A cat does what he wants, when he wants, emperor or not.'

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Time
  • World
  • Cat

• You never hear about good seafood places.

  

  Curtis Granderson
  • Good

• That's what my dad always said. 'If you're very lucky, it'll work out.' I love what it is I do, and I realize how blessed I am. So now it's just about doing the work as good as possible and enjoying the ride.

  

  Brian Dietzen
  • Good
  • Work
  • Dad

• Hard fouls are a part of playoff basketball, and I think that's how basketball should be. I don't take those fouls personally.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Basketball

• About every four years, someone says to me, 'I've got a friend who looks exactly like you.' What can you say to this?

  

  Arthur Smith
  • Friend

• I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.

  

  Jim Parsons
  • Done

• Selling to small businesses and selling to enterprises take two very different approaches with two very different kinds of people.

  

  Jason Fried
  • People
  • Different
  • Small

• A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Peace
  • Always
  • Conqueror

• I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.

  

  Bess Truman
  • Opportunity
  • Action

• I hope that other women can benefit from my experience. Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people’s hearts, producing a deep sense of powerlessness. But today it is possible to find out through a blood test whether you are highly susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer, and then take action... It is my hope that they, too, will be able to get gene tested, and that if they have a high risk they, too, will know that they have strong options. Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • Life
  • Women

• It's not reasonable for companies that have chief executives and board members who are paid very considerable sums to subsidise low pay through in-work benefits.

  

  Boris Johnson
  • Work

• In the 21st Century, the community of nations may see more and more of this very kind of threat that Iraq poses now - a rogue state with biological and chemical weapons. If we fail to respond, Saddam and all those who follow will believe that they can threaten the security of a vital region with impunity. But if we act now as one, we will send a clear message to would-be tyrants and terrorists that we will do what it takes to protect our security and our freedom in this new era.

  

  Sandy Berger
  • Believe
  • Community
  • Kind

• If you take action, you will be judged. There's no way around it. The alternative, of course, is much safer. To be ignored. Up to you.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Action
  • Judged
  • Ignored