Background Image
Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.
-Seth Godin
Please Wait....
Translating....

Sooner Or Later, Many Idealists Transform Themselves

Seth Godin
Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.
Views: 2
Cite this Page
Prevent plagiarism by providing proper attribution.
APA FORMAT
Embed this Quote
Copy this HTML code to embed the quote on your website or blog.
HTML CODE
Topic
Giving Up Believe Being Real

More From Seth Godin

Idealists are people who believe in the potential of human nature for transformation. . . . the most essential attribute of human nature is its mutability and freedom from instinct . . . it is always within our power to change our nature. so it is actually the idealists who are on the mark and the realists who are off base.
Believe People Essentials
The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. the idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. the militant are not generally known to be passive, nor the passive to be militant. seldom are the humble self-assertive, or the self-assertive humble. but life at it's best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.
Strong Humble Men
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.
Regret Long Choices
No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage.
Love Degrees Pairs
As thinkers, mankind has ever divided into two sects, materialists and idealists; the first class founding on experience, the second on consciousness; the first class beginning to think from the data of the senses, the second class perceive that the senses are not final and say, the senses give us representations of things, but what are the things themselves, they cannot tell. the materialist insists on facts, on history, on the force of circumstances and the animal wants of man; the idealists on the power of thought and will, on inspiration, on miracle, on individual culture.
Inspiration Men Thinking
In one question you are expressing a world of opinion. because it is you who thinks that america has been mistakenly starting these conflicts. i happen to agree with you, and i will repeat what your question suggested...we have mistakenly gotten into one fracas after another. why we do that [united states has insisted on keeping up a string of enemies, and the wars associated with creating those enemies], i think it's because we're afraid to look in the mirror and understand who we are.
War Thinking Mirrors
Similar Quotes
Their foreign policy is so disjointed, confusing, and chaotic that, really, people need to reexamine those who want to be involved in every war.
War People Confusing
Against the vast majority of my countrymen, even at this moment, in the name of humanity and civilization, i protest against our share in the destruction of germany. a month ago europe was a peaceful comity of nations; if an englishman killed a german, he was hanged. now, if an englishman kills a german, or if a german kills an englishman, he is a patriot, who has deserved well of his country.
Country War Europe
Communism will never be halted by negotiations or through the machinations of detente. it can only be halted by force from without or by disintegration from within.
War Cold Communism
This war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything.
War Stupid Liberal Lost

Trending Author

Zachary Knighton
Zachary Knighton
Zahi Hawass
Zahi Hawass
Sebastian Bach
Sebastian Bach
Glen Duncan
Glen Duncan
Hal Holbrook
Hal Holbrook
Judith Guest
Judith Guest
Category
Information
Inspirational
Philosophy
Personal Growth
Happiness & Joy
Life Lessons
Success & Business
Motivation