Seth Godin Quotes

Don't be afraid of silly ideas.

It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original.

You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.

There is no science in creativity. If you don't give yourself room to fail, you won't innovate.

Being wrong doesn't mean being creative - but if you aren't afraid of being wrong, you can't be creative.

If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.

Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won't invite what's not there to begin with.

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

Worst ideas? Me? Whatever do you mean? There are no bad ideas.

The great thing about ideas is that every new idea leads to two more new ones. It’s the opposite of a gold rush, where the more people who show up in 1849 to get that gold in California, the faster the gold runs out. Ideas are not like that; ideas breed.

I'm always looking for the creative spark. Always.

I think everything starts with an idea. No matter how crazy it is, you should always try to bring it to life.

Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.

Dare to be wrong and to dream.

You can never discard too many bad ideas.

After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.

You don't have a really good idea until you combine two little ideas.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you're not prepared to be original.

All you need is your own imagination. So use it that's what it's for.

The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.