Seth Godin Quotes

If I ever feel a sense of anxiety, it's usually over things that I have some control over, or I'm anxious about me making the right decision.

Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.

If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?

I have horrible anxiety.

I feel like I've mastered what nervousness is, and simply, nervousness is, fearing the future. Or, I like to put it as, thinking about things that you don't want in the future. Normally, artists may think, 'What if my show doesn't go well?' Boom. That's going to cause nervousness.

I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.

Worrying is imagining that which you don't want.

I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.

Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you'll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn't make you better.

Worry over what has not occurred is a serious malady.

Worry is negative goal setting.

Please don't tell me there's no need to worry, it's the only thing I'm any good at.

What does worry accomplish except to breed more worry?

I worry too much.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation.

I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.

If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

I'm always thinking 'Don't mess this up.'

Even when I had a run of successful prime-time shows, I couldn't sit down and enjoy my success. I would beat myself up and scrutinise everything. I'm a natural-born worrier.

I'm anxious about work, the future, friendships, past relationships... I'm just one of those people that, whatever I'm doing, it's a big worry.

I stress out a lot. Being a perfectionist doesn't help with that!

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

If I make a wrong decision, I worry what might have been. I stress out over very insignificant things.

I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it's in my nature. It's the thing that makes me suffer the most.