Seth Godin Quotes
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Just start. Start now. Fail often. Enjoy the ride.
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You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training.
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Great work is the result of seeking out tension, not avoiding it.
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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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One key to learning and success is the willingness to try something new, and feel momentarily incompetent.
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And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.
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Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.
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Kickstarter isn't a profit center, it's an organizer and an instigator.
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Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn't mean mattered.
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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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I was amplifying the negative at the expense of the positive, not to serve any useful function, not to make my writing better, but to destroy it. The lizard brain, so attuned to people laughing behind our backs, was on high alert for this sort of criticism and would do anything it could to stop me from writing again. I haven't sought out and read a review or a tweet since.
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You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.
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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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Most people are searching for a path to success that is both easy and certain. Most paths are neither.
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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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Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn't be done.
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Great work is always shunned at first.
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This might end up in crying. If you're not prepared to cry about it, I'm not sure you're making art. And if you're not prepared to dance in anticipation, you're definitely not making art.
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We need to care enough to connect, to put ourselves at emotional risk and play one note worth hearing.
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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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Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.
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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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Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no.