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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
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"It's not about you, it's about the next person. The single best use of a business book is to help someone else. Sharing what you read, handing the book to a person who needs it... pushing those around you to get in sync and to take action-that's the main reason it's a book, not a video or a seminar. A book is a souvenir and a container and a motivator and an easily leveraged tool. Hoarding books makes them worth less, not more."

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
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"Professor Trelawney: "Everything went pitch-black and the next thing I knew I was being hurled headfirst out of the room!" Harry Potter: "And you didn’t see that coming?" Professor Trelawney: "No, as I say it was pitch — ” [Glares at Harry angrily]"

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
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"How do you know if the next act you are about to do is the right one or the wrong one? Consider the face of the poorest and most vulnerable human being that you have ever chanced upon, and ask yourself if the act that you contemplate will be of benefit to that person; and if it will be, it's the right thing to do, and if not, rethink it."

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Laozi Philosopher
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"Good Government is not intrusive the people are hardly aware of it; the next best is felt yet loved; then comes that which is known and feared; the worst government is hated."

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Laozi Philosopher
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"In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them."

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Ice Cube Rapper, Actor
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"I'm always kind of off to the next movie, and focused on making sure that the one I'm currently working on is as good as the one that's already on TV."

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Ice Cube Rapper, Actor
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"Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that!"

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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"The truth is I have from the very beginning listened to my instincts. All of my best decisions in life have come because I was attuned to what really felt like the next right move for me."

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Gary Allan Country Music Singer
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"Everything about the music industry takes away from you as an artist. They're always wondering what the next thing is: 'What do you have?' It's a very introverted process."

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Oscar Wilde Writer
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"But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms."

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Fiona Shaw Actress
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"I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born."

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Oscar Wilde Writer
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"Just to let you know that the buffet car will be closing for stocktaking in five minutes. The next station stop is Chesterfield."

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Neil Gaiman Author
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"I very rarely want to go back and fix things, because I'm much more interested in the next thing, and in taking what I learned from the things that don't work, and applying them to new things that may work."

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Neil Gaiman Author
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"I'm willing to make a fool out of myself in public. I'm also willing to make those mistakes that you're going to make the first time you go out, so hopefully the next time it will be better."

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