A Quote by Seth Godin

Too often, we don't give people the opportunity to fill in the blanks. — © Seth Godin
Too often, we don't give people the opportunity to fill in the blanks.
But I just think we've got such a continuity with what we're doing that most people come in and fill in the blanks. And sometimes we leave a lot of blanks to be filled.
It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.
I think the more the listener can contribute to the song, the better; the more they become part of the song, and they fill in the blanks. Rather than tell them everything, you save your details for things that exist. Like what color the ashtray is. How far away the doorway was. So when you're talking about intangible things like emotions, the listener can fill in the blanks and you just draw the foundation.
You're not supposed to totally know what's happening. The songs are supposed to give you clues so you can fill in the blanks.
I don't believe in using too much graphic violence, although I've done it. It's better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to fill in the blanks in their minds.
I love books that give you space to climb inside there. And you have to run to keep up in places, and you have to fill in a lot of blanks yourself. So it almost becomes your story.
Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage.
People love conversation, and movies are conversations, and an audience has to participate; it has to fill in some blanks.
Of course the thoughts and awareness are there, but it's all incomplete and often fanciful - kids know there's something to know, and they fill in a bunch of the blanks with their imaginations if their parents haven't had the conversations and/or established themselves as sources of information. It's rare that the kids know nothing at all, and the somethings they do know are often only partially right or flat-out wrong.
Most actors do that. They fill in the blanks. You don't want to play a cipher.
I don't remember everything about my life, but I'm very fortunate to have a group of friends I can rely on - they fill in the blanks.
In the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don’t care about them or don’t like them.
Do we want blanks, asterisks and exclamation marks which people can fill in with their own imaginations, or are we prepared and strong enough to tolerate, even if we do not approve, the strong Anglo-Saxon, realistic and vivid language?
This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.
My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?
I try to research or make up for myself what happened in any character's life. From when he was born until the first page of the script. I fill in the blanks.
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