Tony Hsieh Quotes

The advantage for Nintendo is that we always try to do things that other companies don't try to do. That is something that the general public appreciates.

My mentally for my character is you have to be first, better, or different. I know that I'm not the best at everything; in fact, I'm not the best at a lot of things, so I'm going to be different, or I'm going to be the first one to do it.

Everything's so, like, saturated nowadays. So if you wanna, like, make an impact, you gotta do something different. Do something new.

The more time you invest in something, potentially, the deeper the emotional impact of the climax. It's true of relationships, too.

It is not the style but the quality and emotional impact of work that makes it marketable. Unless we make art that connects with people, we won't sell much, no matter what the style or subject.

You have to be different, great or first.

If you want success, be unique.

I want to earn a reader's capacity to be moved.

We don't do things the same way everyone else does. We relish being different. We see that difference as an element that makes us more compelling to the consumer.

I auditioned for Lamorne Morris' part, Winston, on 'New Girl.' In the scene, the character was eating a mayonnaise sandwich. I thought, 'Nobody else is going to go into the audition eating, and this is how I'm gonna set myself apart.'

If you can write a song that makes people have emotions and show their feelings, that's a powerful thing and a beautiful thing.

Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul.

All I knew is that I NEVER wanted to be AVERAGE.

It might sound goofy, but I do believe that emotions have power. We're all driven by something, and most of that is emotional reaction.

It's interesting, for me sappy means sentimental and something that gets you in your heart, gets you emotional. That's what I mean. Also, of course, it means that I'm slightly setting up the audience that there's a bit of fun involved, as well.

I wanted to see if I could create something that is emotional between people. Existing games are about killing each other or killing something together. The idea of social emotion means people need to share feelings. At that moment, the players are in sync. The problem [with many games] is there's no chance to share emotion. Most of them are busy, [there are] explosions everywhere. So we got rid of all the background noise and we had to get rid of the guns.

Normally death scenes are good, if you have a significant death scene and it means something it's like the audience has an attachment to you being killed that's a good thing.

My goal is to connect with people emotionally. I take life’s experiences and translate them into music — music that hopefully creates an impact on the listener.

I think that usually I'm just drawn to something that's different from something that I've done previously. Whatever makes me feel something. Whatever makes me excited and connected to it.

My real motivation came from my desire for music videos to have the same equal soul-touching emotional resonance that straight music does.

We get these really deep and emotional fan letters sometimes that are so heartbreaking or shocking or haunting sometimes that I can kind of relate to them in my own way and connect with our fans in that way.

Refuse to be average.

Two things that matter to me. Emotional resonance and rocket launchers.

Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril

Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.