Seth Godin Quotes
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Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a change for the better.
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Excellence isn’t about working extra hard to do what you’re told. It’s about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.
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If you want to be a leader, go lead
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When you set down the path to create art, whatever sort of art it is, understand that the path is neither short not easy. That means you must determine if the route is worth the effort. If it's not, dream bigger.
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What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer? If you're not, you're wasting away.
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Sure, compare. But compare the things that matter to the journey you're on. The rest is noise.
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If you want to dig a big hole, you need to stay in one place.
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Habits are where our lives and careers and bodies are made.
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If I fail more than you do, I win.
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The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.
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A one-hit wonder is a legend who stopped early.
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As long as you want to please everyone, you won't please anyone.
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More and more people now have jobs that require them to confront the risk of appearing stupid on a regular basis.
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The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don't exist.
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You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.
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If you could do tomorrow over again, would you?
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I wonder why anyone would hesitate to be generous with their writing. I mean, if you really want to make a living, go to Wall Street and trade oil futures ... We're writers. We're doing something that is inherently a generous act. We're exposing ourselves to the muse and to the things that frighten us. Why do that if you're not willing to be generous? And paradoxically, almost ironically, it turns out that the more generous you are, the more money you make. But that's secondary. For me, the privilege of being generous is why I get to do this.
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Who gets to decide what you want?
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Every activity worth doing has a learning curve.
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At the heart of art is learning to see
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And in a world where we have too many choices and too little time, the obvious thing to do is just ignore stuff. And my parable here is, you're driving down the road and you see a cow, and you keep driving 'cause you've seen cows before. Cows are invisible. Cows are boring. Who's going to stop and pull over and say, oh, look, a cow? Nobody.
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The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they've got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.
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If you can raise money, you're never going to have trouble getting a job.
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No, everything is not going to be okay. It never is. It isn't okay now. Change, by definition, changes things