Seth Godin Quotes

When there's so much choice, it can get overwhelming and it's hard to make a choice.

People aren't able to make decisions anymore because there's too many choices within that decision.

The web and physical world is plagued with abundance - people need help sorting through all the good and bad stuff out there. The tyranny of choice is causing major psychic pain and frustration for people.

When people have too many choices, they make bad choices.

My problem is not that there are too few ideas out there. It's that there are too many.

I'm the type of guy where, if I see, like, 20 songs, I don't even wanna listen to one of 'em 'cause it's too much.

Now imagine a life in which every day a person is presented with not two or even three but dozens of choices, and you can begin to grasp why the modern world has become, even with all its advantages, a neurosis-generating machine of the highest order.

Under our present enormous accumulation of books, I do affirm that a most miserable distraction of choice must be very generally incident to the times; that the symptoms of it are in fact very prevalent, and that one of the chief symptoms is an enormous 'gluttonism' for books.

Overload 'em with information an' they'll kill yeh jus' to simplify things.

When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.

There is always more information than attention

The cure to information overload is more information.

I mean we know that some choice makes you better off than no choice. Now do we get better off if we go from a lot of choice versus a few choices? And there I think the answer is much, much, much more complicated.

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients.

The contextual age means we're going to have to go to war on noise.

Now we have to contend with overstimulation and too many opportunities all the time, and too many decisions all the time.

We are deluged with information. We have to process now three times as much data as we would have done 50 years ago. We're bombarded with tweets, with emails - a state of continuous disruption - and that's bad for our decision making and bad for our thinking.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

That is, we are bombarded by all kinds of images and influences and we have to fend some of them off if we're to take in any of them, or to carry through just our ordinary day's work, or really deepen whatever we have to do or say.

In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: the attention of its recipients.

I tend to walk through life sort of looking through a pair of binoculars, and I focus on certain things and push out the rest.

People of the future may suffer not from an absence of choice but from a paralysing surfeit of it. They may turn out to be victims of that peculiarly super-industrial dilemma: overchoice.

I'm on a lot of airplanes. There are definitely times when I just vapor-lock. I'm on the plane, and I have so much to do, I just don't know what to do. It never lasts for very long. It might last for the flight.

I find it so difficult to dispose of the few facts which to me are significant, that I hesitate to burden my attention with thosewhich are insignificant, which only a divine mind could illustrate. Such is, for the most part, the news in newspapers and conversation.

We're making more and more decisions every day. I think a lot of us feel overloaded by the process.