The enemy of creativity… is fear. We’re all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.
SETH GODINFitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.
More Seth Godin Quotes
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An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.
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Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.
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Are you copying others? People won’t pay extra for that. You won’t be followed for that.
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Being an artist isn’t a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It’s an attitude we can all adopt. It’s a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you’re an artist.
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Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
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Not changing your strategy merely because you’re used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.
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In a long distance race, everyone gets tired. The winner is the runner who figures out where to put the tired, figures out how to store it away until after the race is over. Sure, he’s tired. Everyone is. That’s not the point. The point is to run.
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Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.
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If you hear my idea and dont believe it , thats not your fault its mine.
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People who make a difference never wait for just the right time. They know that it will never arrive.
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The goal of a marketing interaction isn’t to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.
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Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.
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The best creative solutions don’t come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented… They come from inventing new questions!
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The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies.
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You are not your resume, you are your work.
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Empathy requires something extremely difficult: accepting the fact that we are not and never will be in the other person’s shoes. There’s no rational, universal course because individuals have different goals, different worldviews and different experiences.
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There’s nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.
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Make a decision. It doesn’t have to be a wise decision or a perfect one. Just make one.
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You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.
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Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.
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Many people believe that great designers get great clients. It’s the other way around.
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You can be right or you can have empathy. You can’t do both.
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Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
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The less people know, the more they yell.
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The problem with taking offense is that it’s really hard to figure out what to do with it after you’re done using it. Better to just leave it on the table and walk away. Umbrage untaken quietly disappears.
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You don’t make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.
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