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Seth Godin Quotes - Page 13

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The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.

The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.

Failure, Secret, Realizing

Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.108, Penguin

If you're not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better.

Get Better, World, Ifs

Listen to your fear but don't obey it.

If you want to get in shape, go to the #‎ gym every single day, change your clothes and take a shower. If you can do that every single day for a month, pretty soon you'll start doing something while you're there.

Clothes, Shapes, Want

The only people who get paid what they're worth are people who don't follow the instruction book, who create art, who are innovative, who work without a map.

Art, Book, People

Skepticism doesn't help you hear.

Helping, Skepticism

No is the foundation that we can build our yes on.

Foundation

"No is essential". sethgodin.typepad.com. May 13, 2014.

Giving people what they want isn't always what they want.

People, Giving, Want

The devil doesn't need an advocate. The brave need supporters, not critics

Brave, Devil, Needs

Positive thinking doesn't guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.

Positive Thinking, Negative, Guarantees

The resistance is not something to be avoided, it's something to seek out.

Resistance, Avoided

Seth Godin (2012). “The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?”, p.86, Penguin

The largest enemy of change isn't 'no', it's 'not yet' - that is the easiest way to forestall change.

Enemy, Way

Every activity worth doing has a learning curve.

Curves, Activity, Learning Curve

Competence is the enemy of change!

Change, Enemy, Competence

Seth Godin (2012). “Survival Is Not Enough: Shift Happens”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.

Blow, Years, Wind

Effort is its own reward if you allow it to be.

Effort, Rewards, Ifs

believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.

Giving Up, Believe, Realistic

Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.29, Penguin

Personalizatio n wasn't supposed to be a cleverly veiled way to chase prospects around the web, showing them the same spammy ad for the same lame stuff as everyone else sees. No, it is a chance to differentiate at a human scale, to use behavior as the most important clue about what people want and more important, what they need.

People, Important, Use

You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.

Art, Long, Choices

We need to care enough to connect, to put ourselves at emotional risk and play one note worth hearing.

Emotional, Play, Risk

The market ... demands a signal from you that you're serious, powerful, accepted, and safe.

Powerful, Demand, Safe

Seth Godin (2007). “The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)”, p.48, Penguin

The reason you might choose to embrace the artist within you now is that this is the path to (cue the ironic music) security.

Artist, Ironic, Might

Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.81, Penguin

If you can't be remarkable, perhaps you should consider doing nothing until you can.

Doing Nothing, Should, Remarkable

Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.66, Penguin

If you work in an urgent-only culture, the only solution is to make the right things urgent.

Appreciation, Culture, Employee Engagement

Mass attention is almost unattainable and it's not clear that you want it.

Attention, Unattainable, Want

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