Seth Godin Quotes

Authenticy in marketing is telling a story people want to hear.

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• I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Love
  • History

• You never think about what life's going to be like five years down the road or 10 - you just go though the day and try to make good decisions. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. You just hope this day will be a good day.

  

  Jack Harbaugh
  • Life
  • Good
  • Hope

• It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.

  

  Om Puri
  • Actor
  • Living
  • Significance

• I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Think
  • Authority
  • Brains

• The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.

  

  Larry Elder
  • School
  • High
  • Age

• I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • School
  • America

• But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Age
  • Forever
  • Economists

• You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • You
  • Take
  • Shots

• When I went to the 'Rush' audition, I was blown away by the script. I thought it was fantastic.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Thought
  • Away
  • Rush

• A lot of times, we look at jazz in eras. How can we not keep those eras separate and think of the language as one complete continuum? It's all interrelated, and it's all evolutionary.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Think
  • Language
  • Jazz

• That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Long
  • Father
  • Parents

• What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Why
  • Artist

• I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • Time
  • Politics
  • Stand

• This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Movie

• You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • You
  • Right
  • Counsel

• When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Reading
  • Beach

• My favorite thing, maybe even more than going in and writing for myself because I've become bitter and jaded, is writing with an artist that has a perspective and that has a story to tell. It’s a really, really cool feeling and experience.

  

  Wrabel
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Story

• I'm the kind of guy who, I need a watch that tells me what day it is. I need to know it's Friday on my watch. I need to look at it and go, 'Friday today.' Tomorrow I will not know it's Saturday until I look at my watch. My watchband broke, I was crippled. I have no concept of time, I have no concept of dates.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • Today
  • Guy

• The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

  

  James A. Baldwin
  • World
  • Experience

• I used to hate being different. I used to cry. I wanted to be blonde-haired and blue-eyed like all of my girlfriends. My mom and dad would feel so badly - 'No, it's OK. You'll be happy you're different later.

  

  Kiana Tom
  • Different
  • Happy
  • Hate

• You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Live
  • Black
  • Social Media

• Authenticy in marketing is telling a story people want to hear.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Story
  • Marketing
  • Hear