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Seth Godin Quotes

Total quotes: 16
“Leaders create the conditions where people choose new actions. The choices are voluntary. They’re made by people who see a new landscape, new opportunities and new options. You can’t make people change. But you can create an environment where they choose to.”
— Seth Godin, Leadership
Tagged: Leadership, leading
“The thing is, there has never been a perfect leader. There has never been a flawless president. There are always weaknesses, foibles and scandals. It takes more than a hundred years before the patina sets in, and even then, most great leaders throughout history had defects that would cause them to wither under today's profit-minded, scandal-focused media.”
— Seth Godin, How they talk you out of voting
Tagged: Election 2016, voting, We Are Imperfect
“We define the universe around us as normal. It's one of the only ways to stay sane.”
— Seth Godin, Look around
Tagged: Normalization, What We See Is What We Think Is Normal, The Danger of Staying One Place For Too Long
“Heretics are the new leaders. The ones who challenge the status quo, who get out in front of their tribes, who create movements.”
— Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
Tagged: Breaking The Status Quo, Breaking Rules, Rebels
“If you want to teach, to change minds or to cause action, a consistent curriculum is always better than a single event.”
— Seth Godin, One step at a time
Tagged: Education, Changing minds, Small Steps To Big Steps, Crawl Then Walk, Slow Burn of Rhetoric
“It's the combination of visceral impact and tribal cohesion that drives the desire to deny.”
— Seth Godin, Selling confusion
Tagged: Why People Deny The Truth
“We're all capable of huge leaps of insight and empathy if we're willing to go to work to learn how.”
— Seth Godin, The musclebound baby
Tagged: Growth, Getting Better
“If you run everything through a spreadsheet, you might end up with a rational plan, but the rational plan isn't what creates energy or magic or memories.”
— Seth Godin, Irresistible is rarely easy or rational
Tagged: The Business of Impulse, Feeling Your Way Through Financial Problems, Spreadsheets
“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.”
— Seth Godin, Unwrapping Your Passion: Creating the Life You Truly Want
Tagged: vacation, Escapism, H4D-45
“We have to work ever harder on seeing, listening and supporting the quiet voices who have something important to say. Perhaps, if we listen a bit harder, we'll be able to do the right thing that much sooner.”
— Seth Godin, On Speaking Up
Tagged: Silent But (Right) Voices, Whispers In The Air of Truth, Quote of the Moment, Listening, hearing more
“How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?”
— Seth Godin, Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas
Tagged: Self-improvement, Settling, Standards
“If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.”
— Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
Tagged: Future, Safe, Dreams
“When we see someone with well developed abs, we don't say, oh sure, he was born that way. Instead, we realize that a lot of effort went into it. The same thing ought to be true for people who understand science, or make good decisions, or are capable of emotional labor.”
— Seth Godin, The musclebound baby
Tagged: abs, Working Hard, Hard Work, What We Should Respect
“What you say is not nearly as important as what we hear.”
— Seth Godin, Different people hear differently
Tagged: Communication, Quote of the Moment
“When in doubt, do the generous thing. It usually works out the best.”
— Seth Godin, Common traps, worth avoiding
Tagged: Overcome Doubt, Dealing With Big Problems, Unsplash + QC
“The best way to plan a house on a vacant piece of land is to move into a tiny shepherd's hut on a corner of the property. And during that week, you'll understand more about the land than you ever could in an hour of walking around.”
— Seth Godin, Can you live in a shepherd's hut?
Tagged: How To Build A House, Planning, Design, More Is Less (At First), Experience It Before You Build Anything
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