Seth Godin Quotes about Life

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The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.

The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.

Seth Godin

Life, Motivational, Jobs

Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.85, Penguin

You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.

Seth Godin

Life, Motivational, Art

Seth Godin (2012). “The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?”, p.127, Penguin

The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is just that, a Hollywood myth.

Seth Godin

Life, Work, Lunch

The rest of the world isn't nearly as important as the few who are here.

Seth Godin

Life, Motivational, Work

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.

Seth Godin

Life, Work, Writing

Courage doesn't always involve physical heroism in the face of death. It doesn't always require giant leaps worthy of celebration. Sometimes, courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.

Seth Godin

Life, Motivational, Work

The opportunity is not in being momentarily popular with the anonymous masses. It's in being missed when you're gone, in doing work that matters to the tribe you choose.

Seth Godin

Life, Work, Opportunity

The joy of art is particularly sweet, though, because it carries with it the threat of rejection, of failure, and of missed connections. It's precisely the high-wire act of "this might not work" that makes original art worth doing.

Seth Godin

Life, Sweet, Art