Seth Godin Quotes

You gain converts by winning at something the existing provider didn't think was so important.

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• There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Important
  • Kind
  • Actor

• We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Fight

• I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Summer
  • Fight
  • Line

• I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Age
  • Perfect
  • Youth

• Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Up
  • America
  • Light

• Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Up
  • Work
  • Long

• I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • Long
  • Success
  • Kind

• I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Women
  • Why
  • May

• I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Right

• You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Control

• My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Style

• What's so great about DreamWorks is that it's run by filmmakers who believe that if it's not broke, don't fix it.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Fix

• If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Heart
  • Joy
  • Moving On

• Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Good
  • Books
  • Less

• I have done my time living on the run. I'm British and I want to come home.

  

  Gary Glitter
  • Time
  • Done
  • Home

• I have scored some big-time goals. I've done well in Algarve Cups. I've done well in World Cup and Olympic qualifiers, Olympics. In big games when we're playing top-five teams. But yet, you never see my face or my name out there. And it has frustrated me my entire career.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Time
  • World
  • Done

• Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Feel

• I'm definitely somewhat of a tomboy. I grew up a pretty big tomboy, actually, and was really obsessed with basketball.

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Basketball

• I love doing period work, like all the trappings and the wigs and everything. It really helps when it's such a different world that you're immersing yourself in; it helps to get into the story, I think, and step into that different place.

  

  Joanna Going
  • World
  • Work
  • Different

• The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Up
  • Time
  • High

• Unborn children do not have a voice, but they are young members of the human family. It is time to look at the unborn child, and recognize that it is really a young human, who can feel pain and should be treated with care.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Time
  • Children
  • Family

• Being open to what's happening in front of you is the most important thing about being a director. To allow the magic to exist and to be light enough on your feet to harness it as it's happening. That's what makes cinema interesting.

  

  David MacKenzie
  • Important
  • Interesting
  • Light

• The matter of fees is important, far beyond the mere question of bread and butter involved. Properly attended to, fuller justice is done to both lawyer and client.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Important
  • Question
  • Justice

• You gain converts by winning at something the existing provider didn't think was so important.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Important
  • Winning
  • Provider