Seth Godin Quotes

One way to work the system is to work the system. The other way is to refuse to work it.

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• Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Music
  • Love
  • Film

• The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Conscience
  • Worse
  • Active

• Nothing is unfilmable.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Nothing

• Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be addressed, and we need accurate information.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Problem

• During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Book
  • Words
  • City

• A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • World
  • True
  • Friend

• I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Cool
  • Christian
  • Talent

• Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Religious
  • Nothing

• A lot of people on the internet have been saying that there's no way we can pull off a musical in three acts. We just take that as a challenge.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • People
  • Challenge
  • Internet

• There's a huge expanse of this continent that so seldom gets photographed.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Huge
  • Seldom
  • Continent

• I always wanted to be with a woman who has the same mindset and wants to look after me like my mum.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Woman
  • Same
  • Mindset

• My perspective is cultural and world-based. It's always been a global perspective.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • World
  • Perspective
  • Been

• All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Life
  • Day
  • Best

• I would like to cite an instance which proves the efficacy of clean living on the part of an athlete coupled with the inspiration received from a champion which go a long way to making a champion.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Inspiration
  • Athlete
  • Champion

• Some might complain that nuclear disarmament is little more than a dream. But that ignores the very tangible benefits disarmament would bring for all humankind. Its success would strengthen international peace and security. It would free up vast and much-needed resources for social and economic development. It would advance the rule of law.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Up
  • Success
  • Dream

• When I saw how people would react and be touched by my voice, this was the moment I thought maybe there's something more to this than just singing around the house.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • House
  • Singing

• I understand only three things - films, fitness, and food.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Food
  • Understand
  • Fitness

• Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Color
  • inspirational

• My dad dragged me to a Bruce Springsteen concert as a kid. It was my first concert, but I fell asleep in the middle. My second concert was Weezer on the 'Pinkerton' tour, and 'Pinkerton' is the reason why I'm doing this.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Dad
  • Reason
  • Kid

• There are artists that are using computers in all genres - Kendrick Lamar's music is electronic-made, and Taylor Swift is the same thing. There's a lot of pop music, underground music, and music for films made with computers. In that sense, it's not going to go away.

  

  Sonny John Moore
  • Music
  • Film
  • Computer

• Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.

  

  Jim Hodges
  • Work

• For a franchise system to work well, you really need people with an entrepreneurial mind-set because, while you have a large, overarching system that everybody has to work with, a lot of local issues have to be handled.

  

  Fred DeLuca
  • People
  • Work
  • Mind

• The dripping... well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The dripping just proves that you were not trying to control the work, but the work was developing by itself and if it drips, its a natural part in the evolution of the work.

  

  Keith Haring
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Control

• One way to work the system is to work the system. The other way is to refuse to work it.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Work
  • Way
  • System