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
  • Glorification

• Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• '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

• I hold that gentleman to be the best dressed whose dress no one observes. I am not sure but that the same may be said of an author's written language.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • May
  • Author
  • Gentleman

• 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

• If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Good
  • Faith
  • Religion

• If a fan comes up and it is a middle-aged lady, it is probably from 'Prime'; if it is a younger girl, it is probably from when I guest-starred on 'One Tree Hill.' And if it is, like, a skateboard kid or a hipster kid, I can tell they are 'How to Make It' fans.

  

  Bryan Greenberg
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Tree

• I always wanted to be an athlete. Then when I realized that I can't run very fast, jump very high, or catch anything, I thought, 'Maybe if this doesn't work out, I can be an actor.'

  

  Geoff Stults
  • Work
  • High
  • Athlete

• In history, and in evolution, progress is always a futile, Sisyphean struggle to stay in the same relative place by getting ever better at things. Cars move through the congested streets of London no faster than horse-drawn carriages.

  

  Matt Ridley
  • History
  • Struggle
  • Progress

• Restitution I have almost always believed is best handled through individual arbitration or litigation where individual investors, if they believe they have relied upon improper advice rendered by Merrill Lynch or anybody else, can file that claim, ... That is the best forum for those issues to be resolved.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Believe
  • Advice
  • Investors

• 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