Seth Godin Quotes

I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.

Seth Godin

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• In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Society
  • Born

• A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Race
  • Species
  • Variety

• People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.

  

  Tate Taylor
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.

  

  Ralph Thomas Walker
  • Cheap
  • Scorn
  • Shoddy

• I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like the Anti-Nazi League. Everywhere I saw it, I fought prejudice.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Up
  • Family
  • School

• We've seen smaller guys in main event fights, and they do well. It just takes the right combination of people I think. I think Dominick Cruz v. T.J. Dillashaw could have main-evented a PPV and done pretty good.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Struggle

• If you don't think about or deal with an issue, it gets bigger.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Think
  • You
  • Bigger

• When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Issues
  • Had
  • Teens

• I'm looking for a way out of here. I can't have it physically, so I'm going to have it intellectually. It was a beautiful thing to ride Seabiscuit in my imagination. And it's just fantastic to be there alongside Louie as he's breaking the NCAA mile record. People at these vigorous moments in their lives - it's my way of living vicariously.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Moments

• There might be very primitive life in our solar system - single-cell animals, that sort of thing. We may know the answer to that in five or ten years. There is very likely to be life in other solar systems, in planets around other stars. But we won't know about that for a long time.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• I have known a handful of producers who actually were equal or superior to the writers with whom they worked. These producers were a new kind of nonwriting writer hatched by the movies-as Australia produced wingless birds. They wrote without pencils or even words. Using a sort of mime-like talent, they could make up things like writers.

  

  Ben Hecht
  • Up
  • Words

• So many shows out there dumb-down the country. It's so admirable to be part of a show that wants people to think.

  

  David Krumholtz
  • People
  • Country
  • Dumb

• Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who came from white cultural groups that had also suffered in socio-economic terms from the Civil War and its aftermath.

  

  Jim Webb
  • War
  • Action
  • Journey

• I'm not clean or even vaguely pleasant to be around in a domestic situation.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe

• When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Choices

• When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can understand, using a vocabulary that they instantly get, and I always have to feel my way around to figure that out. It's a lot of fun, and it's also really challenging - challenging in a different way from performing.

  

  Lea Salonga
  • Different
  • Fun

• Climate change is real.

  

  Patty Judge
  • Real

• For me, when you are talking about perfect songs, you're talking about Gershwin, 'Someone To Watch Over Me.' Or Larry Hart and Richard Rodgers. Or some of the great Cole Porter songs, whether it's 'Night and Day' or some of the comedy songs. Or Irving Berlin, of course.

  

  Maury Yeston
  • Great
  • Night
  • Perfect

• I want to appreciate you without judging. Join you without invading. Invite you without demanding. Leave you without guilt.

  

  Virginia Satir
  • Judging
  • Appreciate
  • Guilt

• A big part of my job is to remember failure, and reboot failure, when the timing is right.

  

  Edward Boyden
  • Job
  • Remember
  • Failure

• Never say anything to hurt anyone. Moreover . . . refrain from double talk, from shrewd and canny remarks that are designed to advance our interests at someone's disadvantage. We are to turn our back upon evil, and in every way possible, do good, help people and bring blessings into their lives.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Interests
  • Advance
  • Disadvantage

• I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.

  

  Frank Lloyd Wright
  • World
  • City
  • Doubt

• I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Failure
  • Anxiety
  • Advance