Seth Godin Quotes

Effort is its own reward if you allow it to be.

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• Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Nature
  • Space
  • Proud

• I don't believe in the 100 crore club.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Believe
  • Club

• There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Time
  • Book
  • Moment

• You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • You
  • Football
  • Games

• I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.

  

  Ted Stevens
  • Best
  • Boy
  • Years

• As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Success

• When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.

  

  Irwin M. Jacobs
  • Important
  • Ideas
  • New

• Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore - but to practice.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Freedom
  • Myself
  • Practice

• Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Spiritual
  • Psychology
  • Intelligence

• There are standards of the game that FIFA governs and promises to uphold.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Game
  • Standards
  • Promises

• I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Energy
  • Yoga
  • Meditation

• I don't watch a lot of TV.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Watch
  • Lot
  • TV

• As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• Our greatest asset is the one we distrust the most: the built-in antifragility of certain risk-taking systems.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Risk

• To the youngsters of today, I say believe in the future, the world is getting better; there still is plenty of opportunity. Why, would you believe it, when I was a kid I thought it was already too late for me to make good at anything.

  

  Walt Disney
  • World
  • Good
  • Believe

• Why is it that countries which we call strong' are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace? Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard? Why is it, why is it that making tanks is so easy, but building schools is so hard?

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Why
  • Strong
  • Giving

• I’ve never acted my age and I never will. It’s just the way I’ve always been.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Age

• If I think about what life is, I believe life is a miracle. And if I think about what a miracle is, I don’t believe in it.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Miracle

• And shortly after that, when I try to get access to those soldiers, to ask them what in the world was going on, I was told that they did not work for me and I had no right to have access to any one of them.

  

  Janis Karpinski
  • World
  • Work

• Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Feeling

• I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas - if I like these things, why should I apologize?

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Light
  • Pain
  • Weakness

• The only problem is whether one adds life to one's years or years to one's life.

  

  Katherine Ursula Towle
  • Life

• Whether I'm speaking to conservative or liberal audiences, I don't find that people are close-minded about the things I say. I'm still optimistic that we can bridge a divide between these various bubbles. But I do think that it requires a little bit of effort.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Effort
  • Optimistic

• Effort is its own reward if you allow it to be.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Effort
  • Rewards