Seth Godin Quotes
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Basically you create your experience through your beliefs about yourself and the nature of reality. Another way to understand this is to realize that you create your experiences through your expectations.
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If you're different somehow and have made yourself unique, people will find you and pay you more.
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Denigrating art you don't understand doesn't hurt the art - it reveals something about your willingness to learn.
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There are lots of good reasons to abandon a project. Having a little competition is not one of them.
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Go ahead, do something impossible.
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It might be bold to put your work into the world unadorned, but it's probably ineffective.
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We're often in a hurry to finish. Or in a hurry to close a sale. What happens when we adopt the posture of being in a hurry to be generous? With resources or insight or access or kindness... It's an interesting sort of impatience.
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I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.
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Success brings with it the fear of blowing it. With more to lose, there's more pressure not to lose it.
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... outsiders are way more likely to approach your organization with fabulous projects if they think they're likely to both get a good reception and succeed when they get to market.
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If you're remarkable it's likely that some people won't like you.
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The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.
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You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses.
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You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.
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Effort is its own reward if you allow it to be.
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The reason they want you to fit in... is that once you do, then they can ignore you.
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Practice works because practice gives us a chance to relax enough to make smart choices.
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Now, before sliced bread was invented in the 1910s I wonder what they said? Like the greatest invention since the telegraph or something. But... the thing about the invention of sliced bread is this - that for the first 15 years after sliced bread was available no one bought it; no one knew about it; it was a complete and total failure.
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When you can swim, who cares how deep the water is?
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The only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing
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The problem with taking offense is that it's really hard to figure out what to do with it after you're done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears.
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If you don't require the journey to be easy or comfortable or safe, you can change the world.
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Our cultural instinct is to wait to get picked. No one is going to pick you. Pick yourself.
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Mass marketing means appealing to the masses which means appealing to the average.