Seth Godin Quotes
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One key to learning and success is the willingness to try something new, and feel momentarily incompetent.
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Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn't mean mattered.
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Kickstarter isn't a profit center, it's an organizer and an instigator.
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It's not an accident that successful people read more books.
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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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What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It's about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it's something that people have wanted forever.
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You are not your resume, you are your work.
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You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.
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Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn't be done.
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Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.
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Great work is always shunned at first.
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Repeating easy tasks again and again gets you not very far. Attacking only steep cliffs where no progress is made isn’t particularly effective either. No, the best path is an endless series of difficult (but achievable) hills.
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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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Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.
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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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Most people are searching for a path to success that is both easy and certain. Most paths are neither.
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The sound of a small bell during a dark night, is louder than the din of traffic outside your window during rush hour. Surprise and differentiation have far more impact than noise does.
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Those that spend the most effort in search of shortcuts are often the most disappointed and the least successful.
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If you demand that everything that happens be something you are adequately prepared for, I wonder if you’ve chosen never to leap in ways that we need you to leap. Once we embrace this chasm, then for the things for which we can never be prepared, we are of course, always prepared.
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You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome. You can't merely wing it and expect to keep up with them. Setting aside all the safety valves and pleasant distractions is the first way to send yourself the message that you're playing for keeps
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If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.
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Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.
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Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no.