Seth Godin Quotes

The tiny cost of failure...is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.

Seth Godin

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• As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • Die
  • Worry
  • Born

• To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Happiness
  • Child
  • Find

• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.

  

  Nash Grier
  • Time
  • Learning
  • Mistake

• I can trust in Jesus. And this Gospel that we preach does work. So those who are hurting and suffering today, hang in there. The sun will shine again.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Work
  • Today
  • Trust

• My style, in terms of what I wear, is kind of representative of the music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Style

• Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case, a lot of the cultural references.

  

  Raina Telgemeier
  • You
  • Choices
  • Need

• The confidence that we Indians are suddenly infused with while doing something wrong is absolutely commendable.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Confidence
  • Doing
  • Wrong

• Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • You
  • Attitude
  • Eagles

• I would love an upgrade from the Nielsen box; it feels so antiquated to me.

  

  Nat Faxon
  • Feels
  • Upgrade
  • Antiquated

• But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Great
  • High
  • Respect

• You fall for who the chemistry is with.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • You
  • Fall
  • Chemistry

• Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you don't need to do anything to Shakespeare.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • You
  • Language
  • Need

• I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Real
  • Politics
  • Clever

• When I'm filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you've got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I'm not like that when I'm back home.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Home
  • Bad
  • Pretty

• One thing I know that's true about horror fans of any color is they like to be scared. And the easiest place to be scared is in a new thing.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • True
  • Know
  • Color

• My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Kids
  • Democracy
  • Disrespect

• Thou Great First Cause, least understood Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good And that myself am blind.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Good
  • Great
  • Art

• Oh, If I should die tonightOh baby, though it be far before my timeI won't die blue, sugar yeah'Cause I've known you.

  

  Marvin Gaye
  • Die
  • Baby
  • Blue

• I talked to a lot of employers who just are, are fearful of what's coming next out of Washington. It's all the spending, it's all the debt. It's their national energy tax, they want to call it cap and trade - more mandates, higher costs, more taxes. Their healthcare bill - more mandates, higher costs, higher taxes.

  

  John Boehner
  • Energy
  • Health care

• The reality of split government puts a premium on creativity within the administration. President Obama needs to put the right people in charge of the agencies and then have them push the bounds of administrative power to change policy through those agencies. President Obama has a pretty good track record of this.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • People
  • Good
  • Power

• I want to speak seventeen languages. When you think like that, you'll be consumed by failure. I'm haunted daily by what I don't know.

  

  Kelsey Grammer
  • Failure
  • Daily

• The tiny cost of failure...is dwarfed by the huge cost of not trying.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Failure
  • Cost