Quotes of Seth Godin - somelinesforyou

“ Plant your tree before you need the shade ”

- Seth Godin

“ Twelve years from now, your future self is going to thank you for something you did today, for an asset you began to build, a habit you formed, a seed you planted. ”

- Seth Godin

“ The race for cheap, unearned attention is a race that can’t be won ”

- Seth Godin

“ The person who invented the ship also invented the shipwreck. ”

- Seth Godin

“ The race for cheap, unearned attention is a race that can’t be won ”

- Seth Godin

“ Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it. ”

- Seth Godin

“ You are not your resume, you are your work. ”

- Seth Godin

“ If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try. ”

- Seth Godin

“ Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow. ”

- Seth Godin

“ The real shortage we face is dreams, and the wherewithal and the will to make them come true. ”

- Seth Godin

“ Most competitors quit long before they’ve created something that makes it to the top. ”

- Seth Godin

“ Short term pain has more impact on most people than long-term benefits do, which is why it’s so important for you to amplify the long-term benefits of not quitting. ”

- Seth Godin

“ As Neil Gaiman taught me, the best way to defeat writer’s block is to get really bored. ”

- Seth Godin

“ Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work. ”

- Seth Godin

“ Trust is built when no one is looking. ”

- Seth Godin

“ Our job is obvious: We need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has. ”

- Seth Godin

“ If we stop going, we stop learning. ”

- Seth Godin

“ I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it’s useless, I think it’s a distraction. ”

- Seth Godin

“ I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it’s useless, I think it’s a distraction. ”

- Seth Godin

“ There are only two tools available to the educator. The easy one is fear. Fear is easy to awake, easy to maintain, but ultimately toxic. Other tool is passion. ”

- Seth Godin

“ Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, you ought to set up a life you don’t need to escape from. ”

- Seth Godin

“ Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work. ”

- Seth Godin

“ Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow. ”

- Seth Godin

“ Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, you ought to set up a life you don’t need to escape from. ”

- Seth Godin

“ Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from. ”

- Seth Godin

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

- Seth Godin

“ Do What You Want; these are the 4 most frightening words brought to us by the Connection Revolution. If you want to sing, sing. If you want to lead, lead. If you want touch, connect, describe, disrupt, give, support, build, question—Do It. You will not be picked. But, if you want to pick yourself—go for it. The cost is that you own the results. ”

- Seth Godin

“ The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing. ”

- Seth Godin

“ The industrialized mass nature of school goes back to the very beginning, to the common school and the normal school and the idea of universal schooling. All of which were invented at precisely the same time we were perfecting mass production and interchangeable parts and then mass marketing. The common school (now called a public school) was a brand new concept, created shortly after the Civil War. “Common” because it was for everyone, for the kids of the farmer, the kids of the potter, and the kids of the local shopkeeper. Horace Mann is generally regarded as the father of the institution, but he didn’t have to fight nearly as hard as you would imagine— because industrialists were on his side. The two biggest challenges of a newly industrial economy were finding enough compliant workers and finding enough eager customers. The common school solved both problems. The normal school (now called a teacher’s college) was developed to indoctrinate teachers into the system of the common school, ensuring that there would be a coherent approach to the processing of students. If this sounds parallel to the notion of factories producing items in bulk, of interchangeable parts, of the notion of measurement and quality, it’s not an accident. The world has changed, of course. It has changed into a culture fueled by a market that knows how to masscustomize, to find the edges and the weird, and to cater to what the individual demands instead of insisting on conformity. Mass customization of school isn’t easy. Do we have any choice, though? If mass production and mass markets are falling apart, we really don’t have the right to insist that the schools we designed for a different era will function well now. ”

- Seth Godin

“ The industrialized mass nature of school goes back to the very beginning, to the common school and the normal school and the idea of universal schooling. All of which were invented at precisely the same time we were perfecting mass production and interchangeable parts and then mass marketing. The common school (now called a public school) was a brand new concept, created shortly after the Civil War. “Common” because it was for everyone, for the kids of the farmer, the kids of the potter, and the kids of the local shopkeeper. Horace Mann is generally regarded as the father of the institution, but he didn’t have to fight nearly as hard as you would imagine— because industrialists were on his side. The two biggest challenges of a newly industrial economy were finding enough compliant workers and finding enough eager customers. The common school solved both problems. The normal school (now called a teacher’s college) was developed to indoctrinate teachers into the system of the common school, ensuring that there would be a coherent approach to the processing of students. If this sounds parallel to the notion of factories producing items in bulk, of interchangeable parts, of the notion of measurement and quality, it’s not an accident. The world has changed, of course. It has changed into a culture fueled by a market that knows how to masscustomize, to find the edges and the weird, and to cater to what the individual demands instead of insisting on conformity. Mass customization of school isn’t easy. Do we have any choice, though? If mass production and mass markets are falling apart, we really don’t have the right to insist that the schools we designed for a different era will function well now. ”

- Seth Godin
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