Seth Godin Quotes

Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.

Seth Godin

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• Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.

  

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• I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.

  

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• But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.

  

  Jack Dee
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• I did a sitcom with Desi Arnaz Jr. in a pilot called 'Whacked Out.' We were bombing, and Lucille Ball grabbed the mic and started berating the audience.

  

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• Businesses can't afford to react to what their customers want; they need to anticipate their needs.

  

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• When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to sending the energy out. There are some actors, like Gary Cooper or Kevin Spacey, that are absolutely brilliant - Gene Hackman is another - at being and allowing the audience to just do the work.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
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• The comedian can put the punchline out there, but it's the audience that receives it - and has to get it.

  

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• How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.

  

  Patrick Ness
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• I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
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• I want to be back on Broadway one day. That's a dream of mine. There's nothing like live theater, and I think it's so important for me to be able to be on stage with an audience that responds.

  

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• The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
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• When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.

  

  Xavier Rudd
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• Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
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• Why don't we actually fight for a woman's right even to complain about being beaten up. That is more important than driving. If a woman is beaten, they are told to go back to their homes - their fathers, husbands, brothers - to be beaten up again and locked up in the house.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
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• I think it's very important for both women and men to see women working in a variety of capacities.

  

  Maggie Hassan
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• The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

  

  Dan Quayle
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• I was at a slight disadvantage in that I had never played in bands or done any performances before, and that's just as important as writing, recording, and putting records out. It's been a lot of hard work, balanced with a lot of pinch-myself moments of touring in crazy parts of the world.

  

  Washed Out
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• It is surprising how little most small business values the customers. A positive feedback from the customer is critical to your business, and what's more important is their referral.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
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• It is important to have a circle of Christians friends, which I do have.

  

  Cliff Richard
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• I've got a wife, four kids, a business, and a baseball career.

  

  Curt Schilling
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• I was a member of the young liberals, the young conservatives, and young Labour, according to who gave the best parties.

  

  Joanna Coles

• Stricken by a guilty conscience, some men will say that I speak with excessive temerity about all men in general. They are greatly mistaken. If they behave justly, they will be protected from my attacks and those of others. I separate the just from the wicked (who are the subject of my discourse), since not all men are bad and not all women are good.

  

  Arcangela Tarabotti
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• When [Republicans] say they can reduce taxes and trim deficits at the same time, they are either deluded or deceptive, and they are playing voters for fools.

  

  E. J. Dionne
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• Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Important
  • Understanding
  • Audience