Chodosh Seth Quotes

Getting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it's not a plan. It's a version of waiting and hoping. ~ Seth Godin

In a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to store it away until after the race is over. Sure, he's tired. Everyone is. That's not the point. The point is to run. ~ Seth Godin

If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either. Part of leadership (a big part of it, actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time. Long enough that the critics realize that you're going to get there one way or another ... so they follow. ~ Seth Godin

This Is a Manifesto About Starting Starting a project, making a ruckus, taking what feels like a risk. Not just "I'm starting to think about it," or "We're going to meet on this," or even "I filed a patent application. . . ." No, starting. Going beyond the point of no return. Leaping. Committing. Making something happen. ~ Seth Godin

I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me. ~ Vikram Seth

Sooner or later, the ones who told you that this isn't the way it's done, the ones who found time to sneer, they will find someone else to hassle. Sooner or later, they stop pointing out how much hubris you've got, how you're not entitled to make a new thing, how you will certainly come to regret your choices. Sooner or later, your work speaks for itself. Outlasting the critics feels like it will take a very long time, but you're more patient than they are. ~ Seth Godin

Men and women are what they make of themselves. ~ Seth Adam Smith

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody. ~ Seth Lloyd

All investors must come to terms with the relentless continuity of the investment process. ~ Seth Klarman

The goal is to quit the tasks you're doing because you're hiding on behalf of the lizard brain and to push through the very tasks the lizard fears. Is ~ Seth Godin

You're such a stalker, Seth. How long were you standing there?"
"I am not a stalker, and I was standing there long enough to realize you have no self-control and you're unstable. I kind of like that about you - mainly because I find it entertaining. ~ Jennifer L. Armentrout

Winners quit fast, quit often, and quit without guilt ~ Seth Godin

The goal in blogging/ business/ inspiring non-fiction is to share a truth, or at least a truth as the writer sees it. To not just share it, but to spread it and to cause change to happen. You can do that in at least three ways: with research (your own or reporting on others), by building and describing conceptual structures, or with stories that resonate. ~ Seth Godin

Do not write if there is no tremendous urge to do so. At the heart, there must be an inspiration or muse or one of those old-fashioned things. Else, why bore yourself, destroy other people's interest and kill trees? ~ Vikram Seth

Leo Babauta's brilliant little book Zen Habits helps you think your way through this problem. His program is simple: Attempt to create only one significant work a year. ~ Seth Godin

Is this how you think we should fight, Baru Fisher? With coin and open roads?" "No war has ever been won by slaughtering the enemy wholesale. ~ Seth Dickinson

All an investor can do is follow a consistently disciplined and rigorous approach; over time the returns will come ~ Seth Klarman

Admittedly, it would take industrial-grade chutzpah and a massive dose of malevolence for anyone to bulldoze the spot where Neil Armstrong stepped off the Eagle lander. But even innocent visits could be damaging. ~ Seth Shostak

Strategy doesn't change when hard times arrive. Consumers' willingness to try, and to stay loyal, remains, the goal. Winners know this; their brand focus and strategy remains consistent. ~ Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison

This is the miracle of all miracles - when life sacrifices itself to become something greater. When it awakens to its potential and rises in power. That is true magic. ~ Seth Adam Smith

'Fringe' was the first time I realized that I could ever man up in a character and make this transition from being a boy or a young man into actually being a man. ~ Seth Gabel

Stop being so ... optimistic, its getting on my nerves."
"No problem. Do you want me to be all gloom and doom or just shut up?"
"Just shut up."
"Can do."
"Really? Doesn't seem like it."
-Jacob and seth ~ Stephenie Meyer

Well, if it isn't Daniel X himself," Seth said with a yawn. "Become tired of living in this dump of a city already, eh? What can I do for you today? Death? Eternal enslavement? What's it going to be? ~ James Patterson

Tain Shir walks the deck of RNS Sulane between the bombs and incendiaries and steel-tipped barbs. A weapon among weapons but she alone is free. The tragedy of the knife is the hilt. The tragedy of the crossbow is the trigger. Shir has neither. She cannot be gripped nor fired.
She is unmastered.
The sailors are rude with her. So be it. Etiquitte is the domain of those whose power is conditional upon the respect of others, and Shir is unconditional. If she drifted alone in the void beyond the moon or if she walked among the monarchs of the ancient Cheetah Palaces she would not be altered in her capabilities or her intentions, for not one truth of her resides within a relationship to any other thing. ~ Seth Dickinson

Maybe I wanted to believe she would be just like me if she was brought up here, that her moral compass would have been swung to due south by society, by her parents, by the way of the Fae. Because the idea that that wasn't true meant one thing only. I was a bad person. -Seth Capella, Cursed Fates ~ Caroline Peckham And Susanne Valenti

If you wait until there is another case study in your industry, you will be too late! ~ Seth Godin

The tide is coming in," he said. "The ocean has reached this little pool. There will be turbulence, and confusion, and ruin. This is what happens when something small joins something vast. ~ Seth Dickinson

If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story. ~ Seth Grahame-Smith

You look at CG sometimes and its terrible. You look at CG sometimes and its great. ~ Seth Rogen

If the Masquerade could not be stopped by spear or treaty, she would change it from within. ~ Seth Dickinson

If you're short on passion, it might be because your # goals are too small or the # fear ... ~ Seth Godin

We see what we believe, not the other way around. ~ Seth

Your job isn't to do your job. Your job is to decide what to do next. ~ Seth Godin

I wouldn't back away from what's right just because it's hard. ~ Seth Grahame-Smith

Incrementalism ceases to be a good strategy when there's a cliff on the route. ~ Seth Godin

There is a trick to this mystery of faith, I think. It is not a difficult concept, but in practice, it's harder than charging hell with water pistols. ~ Seth Haines

Being charismatic doesn't make you a leader. Being a leader makes you charismatic. ~ Seth Godin

No more than six words on a slide. Ever. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken. ~ Seth Godin

Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death. ~ Seth Godin

I don't weigh myself. ~ Seth Rogen

I think we should probably get Vanessa out of the Quiet Box to help us. What do you guys say?'
'Absolutely,' Newel affirmed. 'Best idea I've heard all day.'
'I'll second that,' Doren said gladly.
Seth gave the satyrs a doubtful scowl. 'Wait a minute. You guys just think she's pretty.'
'I've been around a long time,' Newel said. 'Vanessa Santoro is not jut pretty.'
'He's right,' Doren agreed. 'She's walking dynamite. My pulse is rising just talking about her.'
'She also might be a traitor,' Seth stressed.
'The lethal temptress,' Newel said with relish. 'Even better.'
'It will definitely spice up the adventure,' Doren encouraged.
'I'm obviously talking to wrong guys,' Seth sighed.
'Believe me,' Newel said cockily. 'you're talking to the right guys. We've been chasing babes since the world was flat.'
Seth rolled his eyes. ~ Brandon Mull

Six-pack? Was it possible to have an eight-pack?
I think he had one. Smooth skin stretched over tightly rolled muscles. I bet I could've done a week's worth of laundry on his stomach.
Probably would be a heck of a lot more fun that way to wash clothes. ~ Jennifer L. Armentrout

Papa had once told me that as every man grows the layers of mysticism and wonder peel away like an onion until all that's left is the hardened center on which you must swallow or choke. ~ Seth Blackburn

When you are trusted because you care, it's quite likely the revenue will take care of itself ~ Seth Godin

'What was there before the Big Bang?' That's a question that both kids and adults love to pose to anyone who seems sympathetic. After all, if the universe has only been around for roughly 14 billion years, isn't it legitimate to ask what was in existence before the mother-of-all-events cranked up the cosmos? ~ Seth Shostak

You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know. ~ Vikram Seth