Seth Godin Quotes
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Fear is the dream killer, the silent voice that pushes us to lose our passion in a vain attempt to seek safety.
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Flexible in the face of change, resilient in the face of confusion. All of these attributes are choices, not talents, and all of them are available to you.
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It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts.
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Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator... Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does. Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.
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Great work is always shunned at first.
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It's never too late to start heading in the right direction.
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My problem with the search for the badge of real is that it trades your goals and your happiness for someone else's.
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Great work is the result of seeking out tension, not avoiding it.
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Persistent people are able to visualize the idea of light at the end of the tunnel when others can't see it
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It's not an accident that successful people read more books.
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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.
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In general, organizations are afraid to fire customers, no matter how unreasonable. This is a mistake. It's good for you.
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You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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Life is not about gutting out every situation. It's about identifying opportunity or the lack thereof. If your pride is all that is standing in the way of quitting, quit. The right people won't care and the wrong people don't matter. If you know you're on the right path, persevere though the pain. It will be worth it.
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Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map.
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Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.
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No more than six words on a slide. Ever. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken.
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Turn strangers into friends. Turn friends into donors. And then do the most important job: Turn your donors into fundraisers.
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All the good things in my career are a direct descendant of what I did and learned at camp
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If it were any other way, it would be easy. And if it were any other way, everyone would do it and your work would ultimately be devalued. The yin and yang are clear: without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely it would be worth the journey. Persist.
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So sure, start with a slogan. But don't bother wasting any time on it if you're merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead.
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A well-defined backup plan is sabotage waiting to happen. Why push through the dip, why take the risk, why blow it all when there's the comfortable alternative instead? The people who break through usually have nothing to lose, and they almost never have a backup plan.
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One bad review doesn't ruin my day because I realize what a badge of honor it is to get a bit of criticism at all.
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But this is a remarkable egg, an egg worth talking about, an egg worth crossing the street for, an egg worth writing about.