Seth Godin Quotes

Following the well-lit path, offers little in the way of magic.

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• I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Husband
  • Child
  • Stubborn

• The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • You
  • Always
  • Better

• It may come as a surprise, but Frou Frou was really like a kind of little holiday from my own work. Guy and I, we have always worked together, and then over the years, it became clear that we wanted to do a whole album together. It was very organic and spontaneous - just one of those wonderful things that happens.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Work
  • May
  • Together

• In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Up
  • School
  • Reality

• More and more people are finally realizing that in the heart of America, there's all this incredible music that wasn't widely heard before because it wasn't in the interest of those who feel they have to control the taste of the wider public.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People
  • Music
  • Heart

• With 500 channels and the Internet available, you'd think a candidate could get the word out.

  

  Larry King
  • Think
  • You
  • Internet

• You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Games
  • Hunger
  • Idiot

• You can get beat any day.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • You
  • Day
  • Beat

• The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Age
  • Best
  • Spirit

• There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Hate
  • Know
  • Cold

• My God is none other than the people. Only the popular masses are omniscient and omnipotent and almighty on earth. Therefore my lifetime motto is: 'The people are my God.'

  

  Kim Il-sung
  • People
  • God
  • Earth

• L'intelligence est presque inutile à celui qui ne possède qu'elle.

  

  Alexis Carrel

• Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.

  

  Adrienne Rich
  • Women
  • History
  • Political

• My parents live near the ocean, and I've spent a lot of time walking through the water at night, being around the water.

  

  Win Butler
  • Time
  • Live
  • Night

• I watch movies, and if I get the chance to watch television, I'm usually prone to watching something completely mindless and mundane that I don't have to follow so closely.

  

  Billy Burke

• I think the grandfather of the set is the director. He needs to have authority, to do what people want. A warm grandfather; he needs to know his job, to be open.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • People
  • Job

• I think I would just want to say that I do view serving in government as an honor, and I do view it as a responsibility.

  

  Cheryl Mills
  • Responsibility
  • Honor

• Here at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, we have genetically rearranged various viruses and bacteria as part of our medical research. In fact, we have been able to create entirely new types of DNA molecules by splicing together the genetic information from different organisms - recombinant DNA.

  

  James D. Watson
  • Different
  • Together
  • Cold

• We saw a need to develop a community for artists to get their music out to the masses. With MySpace, when they went out on tour, they could actually tour nationally. The band might have 20,000 friends on their list and send out a bulletin saying, 'I'm going to be in Austin on Tuesday night. Come see our show.'

  

  Chris DeWolfe
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Night

• I definitely try my best not to stay in character when I'm not on set, which can be more difficult in some roles than others.

  

  Elizabeth Debicki
  • Character

• When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.

  

  Asne Seierstad
  • Fear

• I have a huge editor in my head who's always making me miserable. But sometimes, I try to let my unconscious act out.

  

  David Chase

• I am the first Egyptian civilian president elected democratically, freely, following a great, peaceful revolution.

  

  Mohammed Morsi
  • Revolution
  • Peaceful
  • Following

• Following the well-lit path, offers little in the way of magic.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Magic
  • Following