Seth Godin Quotes

Emotional labor is available to all of us, but it is rarely exploited as a competitive advantage.

Seth Godin

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• Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Power
  • Labor

• I just worry a lot. I'm a worrier. Michelle and Barack are really dear to me. I mean, I love them. And I don't want to see them get hurt. Just the nature of politics is hurtful. So every time they are hurt, I get hurt. It's a lot to ask of people, and it's a lot to see your friends go through. It's hard not to get emotional.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • People
  • Time
  • Love

• Hugs are helpful, especially when women step out into a mostly male political world. Emotional support, at critical moments, enables women to stay in the race.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • World
  • Women
  • Political

• Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the most susceptible to manipulation.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Men
  • Different
  • Emotional

• Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

  

  Edmund H. North
  • Emotional
  • Painful
  • Luxury

• I think - you know, I want to intimidate people when I'm on the field. I want people to be scared of me. That's just kind of the nature of who I am as a person and player. But I also know that you have to be emotional. You have to be in touch with your feelings. I think that's important.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Nature
  • Player
  • Feelings

• The Ewoks were definitely a challenge of writing 'The Jedi Doth Return.' After having done so many things with characters who don't speak English, how was I going to make them stand out? Jedi is also rich with emotional material, particularly Darth Vader's transformation from the dark side back to the good.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Done

• 'Winner' is a commercial family entertainer with a strong emotional core. Teju couldn't hold back his tears after watching the movie. The horse race portions were mostly shot in Turkey.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Family
  • Movie
  • Strong

• I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • You
  • Know
  • Lyrics

• I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!

  

  Washington Irving
  • You
  • Emotional
  • Your

• I think that women are more sensitive to emotional infidelity than men. I think men are more scared of physical infidelity.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Think

• Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Music
  • Mind
  • May

• My son is not that emotional. He thought my trip to India is just another conference, But when he hearing about my visit on TV, he too got moved.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • Son
  • Emotional
  • Thought

• A woman living with her mother has limited freedom; a man living with his mother has limited freedom and limited respect. For most men, the vacuum (of no support system) is so devastating, they’d rather agree with their wife than express their feelings and risk emotional withdrawal.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Mother
  • Freedom

• A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direct, emotional, sensuous perception of the work.

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Work
  • Music
  • Words

• The Minimalists were nonobjective. They just recorded beauty, I guess, without the emotions - or at least without personal emotions. My work is a little more emotional than that.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Work
  • Emotional

• Certainly, when you're dealing with more deep, emotional work and sensory work, for me, it helps me to just stay in it.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Work
  • Deep
  • Emotional

• I don't plan anything out, and I don't write in chronological order. The emotional tenor is what guides me, but a lot of it is feeling my way through the dark. That's okay if you have unlimited time to work and stumble upon things in a delightful way, but under a deadline, it can be really stressful.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Time
  • Work
  • Feeling

• Journalism and the news has become not only a means to debate but also to judge and deconstruct celebrity, the news story, and the emotional lives of political people.

  

  Abi Morgan
  • People
  • Political
  • Emotional

• Touch is more important than arm strength. You want to really allow the receiver to run underneath the throw. It'll give you a little margin for error if you undershoot it a bit.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Important
  • Want
  • Strength

• There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds.

  

  James Lasdun

• The one thing women love more than money is power.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • Women
  • Money
  • Love

• In reviewing the most mysterious doctrines of revelation, the ultimate appeal is to reason, not to determine whether she could have discovered these truths; not to declare whether, considered in themselves, they appear probable; but to decide whether it is not more reasonable to believe what God speaks than to confide in our own crude and feeble conceptions. No doctrine can be a proper object of our faith, which is not more reasonable to believe than to reject.

  

  Archibald Alexander
  • God
  • Believe
  • She

• Emotional labor is available to all of us, but it is rarely exploited as a competitive advantage.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Emotional
  • Advantage
  • Labor