Seth Godin Quotes

I think I always had, like, a rebellious spirit. But it wasn't a rebellious spirit to do wrong. It was a rebellious spirit to do something different.

Don't follow leaders.

I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own baby.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

… a controlled disrespect for authority is essential to a scientist.

I am very into making up my own rules.

Certainly, I don't believe in rebellion for its own sake. But I think if you strive to do something in an individualistic way, you just become a rebel by definition.

he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions.

I’VE ALWAYS BEEN A REBEL. I NEVER DO THINGS THE WAY THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO BE DONE. EITHER I GO IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION OR I CREATE A NEW DIRECTION FOR MYSELF, REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE RULES ARE OR WHAT SOCIETY SAYS.

I definitely didn't fit in perfectly to the school system. I was raised with such freedom of speech and thinking.

I hate to tell people what they should think 'cause I really have an aversion when people tell me what to think.

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

I just like doing things from my own head.

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.

I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.

When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

Unless you hit your television with a sledgehammer, you're not going to be able to be an individual.

I don't believe in other people's ideas. I have my own ideas.

I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

Punk rock is very rebellious, of course, but it also means thinking for yourself.

The American people ... have a stake in con-conformity, for they know that the American genius is non-conformist.