Seth Godin Quotes
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Great work is the result of seeking out tension, not avoiding it.
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It's never too late to start heading in the right direction.
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You don't become indispensable merely because you are different. But the only way to become indispensable is to be different. That's because if you're the same, so are plenty of other people.
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'Good enough' stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?
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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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Every voice doesn't matter--only the voices that move your idea forward, that make it better, that make you better, that make it more likely you will ship work that benefits your tribe.
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Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn't be done.
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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 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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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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Great work is always shunned at first.
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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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One key to learning and success is the willingness to try something new, and feel momentarily incompetent.
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Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.
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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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It's not an accident that successful people read more books.
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If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.
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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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Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no.
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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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Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.
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The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.
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After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.
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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.