Seth Quotes
The sound of a small bell during a dark night, is louder than the din of traffic outside your window during rush hour. Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.
Quality is not an absolute measure. It doesn't mean 'deluxeness' or 'perfection'. It means keeping the promise the customer wants you to make.
It's much easier to spend a lot of time making your microphone louder than it is working on making your message more compelling.
A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, they’re doing work that most any trained person could do.
Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.
Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about.
If you're not willing to get your 'worst one ever' out of the way, how will you possibly do better than that?
Our cultural instinct is to wait to get pickedNo one is going to pick you. Pick yourself.
That the horrible Zika virus or HIV, we can look at what it means to be patient zero, what it means to need not much contact to spread, and all of those things follow into the way ideas spread.
I hope I'm better looking than Yoda, but - I'm really interested in people who have something to say, a change they want to make and can't figure out why they can't make it spread.
You have to pay the price to be in the right place at the right time often enough that people tend to see you as the regular kind.
I've found that giving gifts is transformative. It makes me better. It clarifies my thinking and allows me to do better work.
Great boss is challenging people in the right way. Leading, not managing. Supporting them by giving them both a platform they can count on and expectations they can stretch for.
I think unintentionally I gravitate towards concepts and topics that hit home or are something real we can all relate to.
I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high.
I'm a bit of a hacker fanatic and know a fair bit about that industry and cyber crime and cyber warfare.
My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.
There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist.
When you're making a film all by yourself, that requires you to have quite a bit of a point of view in order for anything to get done.
Your quarrel is with God. I merely wish to offer Him the opportunity to judge you.
Her only fault is that she lacks sense enough to avoid falling in love with such a fool as I!
Movie characters rarely get to think out loud or talk very much about their emotions. Instead they have to, very briefly, show their feelings through their action or through dialog.
I feel like the luckiest guy on the planet. But, I literally work all day, every day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, and that's not an exaggeration.
Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.
If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.
If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.
I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.
I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.
The true roll in determing to embrace or reject anything is not whether it have any evil in it but whether it have more of evil than of good. There are few things wholly evil or wholly good.
