Quotes from Seth Godin

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

Great work is always shunned at first.

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

The secret of getting on the shortlist is doing your best work fearlessly for a long time before you get on the list.

Great work is the result of seeking out tension, not avoiding it.

Now for the first time, you can choose yourself. You can be responsible for what you do and how you do it. You have to do the hard work of finding and pleasing an audience.

Art is a human act, a generous contribution, something that might not work, and it is intended to change the recipient for the better, often causing a connection to happen.

Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a change for the better.

Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual.

The people that are doing work that matters aren't doing work thats popular. They're just doing work that changes some people.

Art is the act of doing work that matters while dancing with the voice in your head that screams for you to stop.

If you're working with a spreadsheet or a thread of correspondence or a set of data, I'm not sure you're doing your best work if you're doing it on an iPhone.

Don't scale because you think there's a pot of gold over that rainbow. Scale because you're ready and eager to do heroic work, every day, forever.

I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace.

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.

Before you promise to change the world, it makes sense to do the hard work of changing your neighborhood.

If you don't get it built, the work doesn't matter.

Embracing the fear of freedom, deciding to determine your own path, this is the work of a grownup.

It might be bold to put your work into the world unadorned, but it's probably ineffective.

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

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

In other words, If you don't take action, you won't get any results You are not your resume, you are your work

By my definition, most art has nothing to do with oil paint or marble. Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

It's entirely possible that there won't be a standing ovation at the end of your journey. That's okay. At least you lived.