Seth Godin

Playing the game is a form of winning the game. In those competitions, we win by being resilient.

Seth Godin

Practice works because practice gives us a chance to relax enough to make smart choices.

Seth Godin

Put aside your need for a step-by-step manual and instead realize that analogies are your best friend.

Seth Godin

Quitting the projects that don’t go anywhere is essential if you want to stick out the right ones. You don’t have the time or the passion or the resources to be the best in the world at both.

Seth Godin

Real change rarely comes from the front of the line. It happens from the middle or even the back. Real change happens when someone who cares steps up and takes what feels like a risk. People follow because they want to, not because you can order them to.

Seth Godin

Reality is the best reassurance of all.

Seth Godin

Remarkable work is always not on the list, because if it was, it would be commonplace, not remarkable.

Seth Godin

Saying no to loud people gives you the resources to say yes to important opportunities.

Seth Godin

Schools have figured this out. They need shortcuts in order to successfully process millions of students a year, and they’ve discovered that fear is a great shortcut on the way to teaching compliance.

Seth Godin

Seeing clearly means that you’re smart enough to know when a project is doomed, or brave enough to persevere when your colleagues are fleeing for the hills. Abandoning your worldview in order to try on someone else’s is the first step in being able to see things as they are.

Seth Godin