Seth Godin Quotes

It's far easier to put your future into someone else's hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go.

Seth Godin

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• We all have these challenges and stereotypes that exist, but you can't let that hold you down... If that's the first thing you think about as a black woman - the challenge that lies ahead - you are thinking in the wrong direction, in my opinion.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Thinking
  • Black
  • Woman

• Let a hundred flowers bloom.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Flowers
  • Hundred
  • Bloom

• There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Like
  • Always
  • Throw

• The relationship with time changes when you're captive.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Time
  • Relationship
  • Changes

• The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not prepared?' I just don't feel that way anymore. I feel like the best is yet to come.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Fear
  • Best
  • Scary

• My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.

  

  Olly Murs
  • School
  • Money
  • Dad

• I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • Time
  • Want

• I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Past
  • Change
  • Peace

• I'm a pretty plain-spoken guy.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Love
  • Interesting
  • For Her

• I don't like having to be pushed into a box.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Like
  • Box
  • Pushed

• There's no way you can possibly intellectually justify, 'Well, it's okay for the Western Judeo-Christian countries to have nuclear weapons, but not for a country like Iran.' That logic goes nowhere fast.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Country
  • Christian
  • Logic

• My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me, 'No, it's like this.'

  

  Action Bronson
  • She
  • Mother
  • Father

• I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Goal
  • Appreciation
  • Acceptance

• I was a naughty kid. Teachers did not like me much.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Me
  • Kid
  • Naughty

• I think feeling bitter or angry is really useless.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Think
  • Feeling
  • Angry

• Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Should
  • U.S.
  • Difficulties

• I've got a song on every album, two songs as a matter of fact on every album without Auto-Tune, and that's the song that nobody talks about. It's weird.

  

  T-Pain
  • Song
  • Weird
  • Matter

• We shifted our philosophy from being a computer mapping group that would support planners to the idea of building actual software that would be well engineered. Because at that time, our software was not well-engineered at all; it was basically built with project funding and for project work, largely by ourselves.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Time
  • Work
  • Support

• I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Education
  • Peace
  • Violence

• Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

  

  Khalil Gibran
  • Fear
  • Path

• I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.

  

  Questlove
  • Time
  • Love
  • Future

• Theres no doubt that some of the greatest films ever made have come from the theater. Its all a matter of finding a way to make the theater experience watchable on film.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Experience
  • Film
  • Doubt

• It's far easier to put your future into someone else's hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Future
  • Hands
  • Results