Seth Godin Quotes

If you hesitate to map out your future, to make a big plan or to set a goal, you've just gone ahead and mapped your future anyway.

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• One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.

  

  Samm Levine
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Change

• I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Money
  • Job
  • Dream

• Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.

  

  Xenophon
  • Men
  • Live
  • War

• Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Man
  • Best

• I'd love to do all types of film, not just comedy, although I love comedy.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Comedy
  • Film
  • Types

• The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.

  

  Samantha Power
  • War
  • Mother
  • Change

• Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Love
  • Doubt
  • Wait

• There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • More
  • Speech
  • Contradiction

• Follow the fellow who follows a dream.

  

  E. Y. Harburg
  • Dream
  • Follow
  • Fellow

• If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Unique
  • Innovation

• I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Issues
  • Early
  • Self-Esteem

• Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.

  

  Tarja Halonen
  • Look
  • Rules
  • Own

• I speak five languages besides mine. I went to school in Egypt because girls weren't allowed to go to school in Saudi Arabia. It's very restricting, especially for girls; we're not allowed to go anywhere.

  

  Iman
  • School
  • Speak
  • Go

• Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Mind
  • You
  • Imagination

• In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Work
  • Business
  • Movie

• I am always drawn to men that are funny. I do not know why. But I am always drawn to people that are struggling with parts of themselves... But it's like in the end, there has to be confidence.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • People
  • Men
  • Why

• I borrowed a creaky laptop from my husband, went into the web, and never came back.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Never
  • Husband
  • Back

• But as our explanation will be more brief than one broken in upon by words of wonder, regret, and affection, we will proceed to it ; holding that explanation, like advice, should be of all convenient shortness.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Words
  • Wonder
  • Advice

• The most important thing today is for young people to take responsibility, to actually know how to formulate an idea and how to work on it. Not to buy into the so-called apprenticeship.

  

  Sydney Brenner
  • Work
  • Responsibility
  • Idea

• America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • America
  • Soul
  • Freedom

• A double-edged sword One side destroys One releases I am your Gordian knot Will you release or destroy me? Follow truth and you shall: Find me on water Purify me through fire Trapped by earth nevermore Air will whisper to you What spirit already knows: That even shattered anything is possible If you believe Then we shall both be free.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Free

• When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Career
  • Film
  • Goal

• If you hesitate to map out your future, to make a big plan or to set a goal, you've just gone ahead and mapped your future anyway.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Future
  • Goal