Seth Godin Quotes

Marketing is a contest for people's attention.

Seth Godin

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• I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Important
  • Culture
  • Doctor

• Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Trouble
  • Laugh
  • Class

• I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Fear
  • Half
  • Satan

• A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Bad
  • Day
  • Hair

• I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Think
  • Dark
  • Reflection

• That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Work
  • Team

• No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Long
  • Business
  • Dying

• I haven't always been confident enough to rock different styles because I used to be really shy.

  

  Zendaya
  • Different
  • Rock
  • Enough

• You could take me anywhere. You could take me to the moon, and believe me, everybody's going to try to take a trip to the moon to watch me fight.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Believe
  • Moon
  • Fight

• If Catholics and Jews can today come together regularly for talks after so many tears and so much blood have been shed, than Jews and Arabs must be able to do the same.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Together
  • Today
  • Tears

• In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Art
  • Energy
  • Attention

• We need to make more original movies, and audiences would do well to support original movies for the future of the medium.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Future
  • Support
  • Movies

• Each author has his or her own voice. I read each book slowly so I can see the patterns they use to spread out the garden of earthly delights.

  

  Barbara Rosenblat
  • Book
  • Voice
  • Garden

• The massive migration from dumb phones to smart phones is a great opportunity for young companies to take advantage of.

  

  Adam Dell
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Smart

• I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Modern
  • Alice
  • Wonderland

• I care about my quality of life and money.

  

  Paula Creamer
  • Life
  • Money
  • Quality

• I was tortured, and probably half of it was deserved, but I was bullied - so much so that there were days when I was like, 'I can't go to school today.' I was too scared.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • School
  • Today

• I was incredibly lucky that my first book found a large and loyal readership. It changed my life - from being a very withdrawn adult to living in Paris as a full-time writer. It has also given me enormous confidence.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Life
  • Time
  • Book

• We have to put in our time every day to try and achieve and learn so that we can develop our talents and each of you, thank goodness, have special talents; each of you are special persons.

  

  Bruce Vento
  • Time

• This is the way I've always thought it should be. We've always blamed ourselves, but I guess we know what cylinder wasn't firing!

  

  Homer
  • Way
  • Blamed
  • Cylinder

• I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call 'contemporary headline horror,' stuff that is true crime or for one reason or another catches our attention in the media, those strange cases that we end up obsessing about. I'm always influenced by weird anecdotes and news.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • Up
  • True
  • Attention

• We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education.

  

  Allen Weinstein
  • World
  • Live
  • Education

• During meditation, if we can concentrate all our attention on one point, and put all problems in front of it, then they can be solved immediately. Our power is great, but we never use it. If we do not use our power by concentrating on it, then it seems we do not have any power at all.

  

  Ching Hai
  • Power
  • Attention
  • Spiritual

• Marketing is a contest for people's attention.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Attention
  • Marketing
  • Contest