Seth Godin Quotes

Marketing is the art of seeing (and then creating) what might be interesting to more than our friends

Seth Godin

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• For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Genre
  • Kinds

• There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Challenge
  • Childhood
  • Husband

• You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Work
  • Clothes
  • Dress

• What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Time
  • Never
  • Said

• I was going to college to be a doctor.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • College
  • Going
  • Doctor

• Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Mother
  • Sleep
  • Singing

• This world's a bubble.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • World
  • Bubble

• I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What's the point?

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Different
  • Why
  • Think

• For members of the Democratic Party, and progressives all over the world, it is difficult to overstate or hyperbolize the despair and dread that has descended upon them in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • World
  • Party
  • Trump

• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Travel

• I'm kinda a first take dude. The first time, cut that mic on, and the spirit is there, and what comes on the mic - I mean, even if I'm mumbling, I like to keep a lot of that initial thing that comes out. Cause that's the spirit.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Time
  • Mean
  • First

• Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • Kind
  • Myself

• After Land I wanted to continue exploring the theme but I needed a new challenge so turned to colour. I explored Bradford and produced a series of urban landscapes that I liked, but because Land had made such an impact on the general public my colour work wasn't reviewed.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Work
  • Challenge
  • Impact

• You could get a cheer by saying: 'Let's withdraw from Afghanistan', but I don't think that's where the public's at. It wouldn't be responsible.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Think
  • You
  • Saying

• Time to be the sun and send forth flesh to heal the bones of time.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Time
  • Sun

• You think it impossible the Convention could have a thought of war with Great Britain, and the conquest of Canada. In this point I differ from you very widely. The conduct of Great Britain, and the conduct of our States, too, was such as to keep up very serious apprehensions between the two powers. The treaty of peace was not fulfilled on either side.

  

  John Adams
  • Up
  • Great
  • War

• If you're a Kennedy and you go to Italy or you go to Argentina, you're treated as royalty. And in the United States, we're endlessly fascinated by the family.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Family

• I am interested in levels of brain discourse. How articulate are the voices in your head? You know, there's a different voice for the phone, and a different voice if you're talking in bed. When you're starting off with a narrator, it's interesting to think, where is their voice coming from, what part of their brain?

  

  Anne Enright
  • Different
  • Interesting
  • Brain

• People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Why
  • Interesting

• The word 'impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted.

  

  Childe Hassam
  • Art
  • Abuse
  • Acceptance

• I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably – small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Anxiety
  • Groups

• Mergers are like marriages. They are the bringing together of two individuals. If you wouldn't marry someone for the 'operational efficiencies' they offer in the running of a household, then why would you combine two companies with unique cultures and identities for that reason?

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Together
  • Culture
  • Running

• Marketing is the art of seeing (and then creating) what might be interesting to more than our friends

  

  Seth Godin
  • Art
  • Interesting
  • Marketing