Seth Godin Quotes - Page 32

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• If you are afraid to write or edit or assemble or disassemble, you are merely a spectator. And you are trapped, trapped by the instructions of those you've chosen to follow. Twenty people in the field and eighty thousand in the stands. The spectators are the ones who paid to watch, but it's the player on the field who are truly alive.

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  Motivational, Writing, Player

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• The rules are now clear: no one is going to inform you, but it's easier than ever to inform yourself.

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  Mature, Easier, Clear

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• If it's work, we try to figure out how to do less, If it's art, we try to figure out how to do more

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  Art, Trying, Figures

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• You can't control other people, and giving them the power to decide if you will continue to produce good work is foolish.

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  People, Giving, Foolish

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• Care. Care more than you need to, more often than expected, more completely than the other guy.

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  Guy, Needs, Care

  Seth Godin (2013). “Whatcha Gonna Do With That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012”, p.104, Penguin UK

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• Sign your work...If you're not proud of it, don't ship it. If you are, sign your work and own the results. We'll know who to thank. If you work for a place where work goes unsigned (internally, in particular) it's worth asking why.

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  Asking Why, Proud, Ships

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• If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do it. And yet our schools are churning out kids who are stuck looking for jobs where the boss tells them exactly what to do.

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  Jobs, School, Kids

  "Back to (the wrong) school". sethgodin.typepad.com. September 05, 2011.

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• The conversation is happening about your brand whether
  you're a part of it or not.

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  Conversation, Brands, Happenings

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• The thing is, the future happens. Every single day, like it or not. Sure, tomorrow is risky, frightening and in some way represents one step closer to the end. But it also brings with it the possibility of better and the chance to do something that matters.

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  Matter, Way, Steps

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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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  Needs, Demand, Way

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• Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.

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  Artist, People, Connections

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.11, Penguin

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• The resistance is the voice in your head telling you to use bullets in your PowerPoint slides...It’s the voice that tells you to leave controversial ideas out of the paper you’re writing, because the teacher won’t like them. The resistance pushes relentlessly for you to fit in.

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  Teacher, Writing, Ideas

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• If you can influence the outcome, do the work.
  If you can't influence the outcome, ignore the possibility. It's merely a distraction.

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  Outcomes, Influence, Distraction

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• It's human nature to quit when it hurts. But it's that reflex that creates scarcity.

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  Hurt, Scarcity, Quitting

  Seth Godin (2007). “The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)”, p.32, Penguin

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• It's easy to pretend expertise when there's no data to contradict you.

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  Data, Easy, Expertise

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• More process, less innovation. More operations, less innovation. More management, less innovation. More entrepreneurs, more innovation.

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  Entrepreneur, Innovation, Management

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• All artists are entrepreneurs. All entrepreneurs are artists.

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  Artist, Entrepreneur

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• Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.

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  Art, Painting, Conclusion

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.221, Penguin

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• At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

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  Artist, Age, Four

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.32, Penguin

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• I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the expense. An amorphous organization with no transparency, unclear lines of responsibility, huge amounts of politics and a great deal of unearned power.

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  Responsibility, Rocks, Organization

  "Is it time for a competitor to the Olympics?". sethgodin.typepad.com. February 19, 2014.

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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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  Tiny, Brilliant, Software

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.51, Penguin

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• We're often in a hurry to finish. Or in a hurry to close a sale. What happens when we adopt the posture of being in a hurry to be generous? With resources or insight or access or kindness... It's an interesting sort of impatience.

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  Kindness, Interesting, Impatience

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• Great projects, like great careers and relationships that last, are gardens. They are tended, they shift, they grow. They endure over time, gaining a personality and reflecting their environment. When something dies or fades away, we prune, replant and grow again.

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  Garden, Careers, Personality

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• An organization filled with honest, motivated, connected, eager, learning, experimenting, ethical and driven people will always defeat the one that merely has talent. Every time.

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  Organization, People, Honest

  "The truth about the war for talent" by Seth Godin, seths.blog. September 18, 2013.

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• A product for everyone rarely reaches much of anyone.

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  Business, Products

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