Seth Godin Quotes

The resistance is the voice in your head telling you to use bullets in your PowerPoint slides...It’s the voice that tells you to leave controversial ideas out of the paper you’re writing, because the teacher won’t like them. The resistance pushes relentlessly for you to fit in.

Seth Godin

• Writing
• Ideas
• Teacher
• Fit
• Paper
• Bullets
• Controversial
• Powerpoint

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• When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.

  

  Ian Beattie
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Life
  • Family
  • Kids

• It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • World
  • Great
  • Broken

• Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • You
  • Now
  • Authority

• I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain things of violence or certain things of cruelty, but around that, something might happen afterwards to cause everyone to laugh, and that always blew me away.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • School
  • Remember
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• Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • She
  • Look
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• I can afford to say what I wish.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Wish
  • Say
  • I Wish

• I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Music
  • First
  • Making

• Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • Music
  • Business
  • Woman

• The people we grew up watching and listening to - Outkast, Gucci Mane, Hot Boys, Lil Wayne, Master P - all that type of stuff, we took those styles and made it our own.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • Up
  • Listening

• I want to go against the best fighters. That's why I'm always calling out Georges St-Pierre. I don't have anything against Georges St-Pierre. I think he's a great fighter.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Great
  • Why
  • Think

• Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's the conclusion. You don't necessarily know why it happened. But you start there.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• One of the ways I stuck out was I was a very passionate reader. There was probably a cyclical nature to that; the more I felt like an outcast, the more I sought refuge in books, and the more I sought refuge in books, the more it made me not speak the same language as my peers.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Nature
  • Language
  • Same

• Scrawling 'I'm gay' in lipstick on your parents' bedroom mirror may demonstrate a personal signature of the highest style, but is not particularly sensitive to their feelings. Upon hearing me utter those words almost twenty years ago, my own mother did what and self-respecting middle-class mom would do: went directly into a seizure.

  

  Lance Loud
  • May
  • Mother
  • Parents

• For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Why
  • Suffering
  • Sin

• When people say I'm a star, I don't believe it.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Believe
  • Star

• I was a baseball guy. Mom wouldn't let me play football when I was little because she was scared I'd get hurt. So, I finally convinced her to let me play in 7th grade.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • She
  • Guy
  • Mom

• I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Life
  • Live
  • Myself

• Peace can only thrive when the climate is right. We remain open to bilateral dialogue with Pakistan on all outstanding issues in an environment free from terrorism and violence.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Free
  • Peace
  • Environment

• Van Jones got fired because he became the Scary Negro of the Week on Fox News, where, let's be honest, they still feel threatened by Harry Belafonte.

  

  Bill Maher
  • Scary

• Every role is easy. As an actor it is my job to make my job easy. If I start hyperventilating about my roles, then how will I do it? So, with all my roles, somewhere I feel comfortable about them, and that is why I play them.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Why
  • Job
  • Easy

• It's a very violent game, and bodies take a beating, so you want to make sure you do everything you can to get your body back. It's just something you have to do.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Game
  • Want
  • Body

• The resistance is the voice in your head telling you to use bullets in your PowerPoint slides...It’s the voice that tells you to leave controversial ideas out of the paper you’re writing, because the teacher won’t like them. The resistance pushes relentlessly for you to fit in.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Writing
  • Ideas
  • Teacher