Seth Godin Quotes

It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts.

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• The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Live
  • American

• It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Desire

• Do I enjoy features? Yeah, I really do. Would I like to do some more features before I head to the barn? Yeah, probably. But I also love television. I love doing television because it's fast, and that I like a lot.

  

  G. W. Bailey
  • Like
  • Enjoy
  • Really

• The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Business
  • Me
  • Goal

• Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Men
  • Black
  • Comedy

• Our critics would love nothing more for us to go away and just be quiet. And we won't give them that satisfaction. We have young children that, one day, when they understand more of what's happened and what's transpired, we wanna be able to say to them, you know, we did our best. And we told the truth.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Give

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Remember
  • Short
  • Trees

• Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

  

  Fanny Brice
  • You
  • Everything
  • Director

• I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Education
  • Like
  • Follow

• I am a lifelong Democrat.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Democrat
  • Lifelong

• If we're building high quality companies, if the customers like the products, if the technology innovation is real, then the substance is going to win out in the end.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Real
  • High
  • Technology

• My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn't gone to military school, maybe I wouldn't have decided to get with the program. Maybe I'd be running a bulldozer, rather than going on and doing something more.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • School
  • Mother
  • Me

• I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single day. I never thought I'd be published.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Writing
  • School
  • High

• I surf - that's the one thing I make time to do. I definitely surf a lot, but when you're working 15 hour days... all I want to do is get home to my baby.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Time
  • Home
  • Baby

• We should have a banquet on the day haters die.

  

  Ovadia Yosef
  • Die
  • Day
  • Haters

• I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage-an inexorable demand-that we should cease to kill our fellow-creatures for satisfaction of our bodily wants.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Spiritual
  • Progress

• 'Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • History
  • Today
  • Opportunity

• A living man is blind and drinks his drop. What matter if the ditches are impure? What matter if I live it all once more?

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Life
  • Men
  • Matter

• Some of us might not understand why LeBron James is the way he is, but fortunately he found his great craft in life.

  

  Troy Polamalu
  • Way
  • Found
  • Might

• I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Guy

• Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • World
  • School
  • Kids

• Women are often worried about how they look, and that's not superficial. We know that our appearance has nothing to do with how smart, creative, or hardworking we are, but it plays powerfully into what society decides we are worth.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Women
  • Society
  • Smart

• It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Trying
  • Way
  • Effort