Famous Quotes & Sayings

Seth Godin

The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.

Seth Godin

Sharing an idea you care about is a generous way to change your world for the better.

Seth Godin

All good ideas are terrible... Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part.

Seth Godin

Ideas don't get smaller when they're shared, they get bigger.

Seth Godin

After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.

Seth Godin

Ideas aren't a sideshow that make our factory a little more valuable. Our factory is a sideshow that makes our ideas a little more valuable!

Seth Godin

Cheap is the last refuge of a product developer or marketer who is out of great ideas.

Seth Godin

The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.

Seth Godin

Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.

Seth Godin

There's no shortage of great ideas. There's a shortage of execution.

Seth Godin

Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead. This scarcity makes leadership valuable...It's uncomfortable to stand up in front of strangers. It's uncomfortable to propose an idea that might fail. It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo. It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle...If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader.

Ravi Zacharias

The visual can seduce you, leading to false deductions, and ultimately, even the finest ideas can be reduced. Take for example, sexuality. If it is reduced down to the moment and to pleasure, things like that, that's not what sexuality is all about. Sexuality was to be in tandem with the sacred, not amputated from it.

Tom DeLonge

I would lose straight away if I went on 'American Idol.

Tom DeLonge

But those guys (on 'Idol') will never be known for defining a generation of young suburbanites like (blink) did.

Tom Cruise

Stanley Kubrick was brilliant at getting under the audience's skin. He was very interested in the idea of, 'How can I tell this with just a camera?'

Tom Cruise

If someone doesn’t want to be a criminal anymore, I can give them tools that can better their life. You have no idea how many people want to know what Scientology is.

Todd Solondz

I don't make movies with the idea that people are going to walk out of them feeling comfortable or better about themselves or more secure in their own biases or opinions.

Todd Solondz

Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.

Tobias Smollett

I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey; through which, in all probability, the water drains in its passage; so that as we drink the decoction of the living bodies at the Pump-room, we swallow the strainings of rotten bones and carcasses at the private bath - I vow to God, the very idea turns my stomach!

Sol LeWitt

I wasn't really that interested in objects. I was interested in ideas.

Sol LeWitt

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.

Soledad O'Brien

One thing we can do really well for our students is to help them figure out their identity.

Slavoj Zizek

Fascism is relatively easy to explain. It is a reactionary phenomenon. Nazism was some bad guys having some bad ideas and unfortunately succeeding in realizing them.

Slavoj Zizek

In Fascism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed. Nobody had the idea of arresting Jews and torturing them to confess the Jewish plot. Because in Fascism, you are guilty for your whole being.

Siouxsie Sioux

I liked the idea of being a writer and letting somebody else do the graft.

Siobhan Davies

Then I came in twice a week - for my own enjoyment as well as to be a guide. And then we started to apply some of the splinters of the ideas back into the piece.

Siobhan Davies

There's a mass of places, really, where the idea started.

Rajneesh

It was Heraclitus' ideas that seized Nietzsche so totally that he became completely mad.

Rajneesh

Do not cling to anything, to any idea; because clinging is the bondage, even to the idea of enlightenment.

Rajneesh

Zen says: be empty. Look without any idea. Look into the nature of things but with no idea, with no prejudice, with no presupposition.

Rajneesh

The idea of vegetarianism is of immense value; it is based on great reverence for life.

Rajneesh

There is nothing in existence available without payment. If you want to know yourself, you will have to drop all false identities. They are your investments, they are your power, they are your prestige, they are your religion, they are your qualifications. It is difficult to drop them; it feels like death.

Rajneesh

"Who am I?" is not really a question because it has no answer to it; it is unanswerable. It is a device, not a question.