Seth Godin Quotes

We definitely want to make sure that what we are making is something that we are proud of and something that we are inspired to write.

Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.

I believe in tradition and innovation, authenticity and passion.

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.

I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you end up trying to repeat yourself it's death. It just becomes boring and takes the passion out of it. You gotta find stories and characters that you really want to hang out with.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

I do try to do high-impact work, and I try to think of ideas people haven't thought about that have broad implications, but I don't restrict myself to that. I try to work on things that I find interesting.

Innovation comes out of great human ingenuity and very personal passions.

You have to remember you're an artist and get hungry.

Some people are motivated by a need for recognition, some by money, and some by a broad social goal. I start from a different place: from the love of ideas and the urge to put them into motion and see where they might lead.

If you look at the things I'm drawn to, it's always stuff that's got a lot of imagination and heart.

The greatest creators are as hungry to consume as they are to create.

Commit to Excellence. Become massively innovative and wear your passion on your sleeve. They might call you different or weird or even crazy. But please remember, every great leader (or visionary or brave thinker) was initially laughed at. Now they are revered.

We need imagination in programming, not sterility; creativity, not imitation; experimentation, not conformity; excellence, not mediocrity. Television is filled with creative, imaginative people. You must strive to set them free.

I wouldn't want to compare myself to David Byrne whom I consider a genius, but what I think what we have in common is that he's also a guy who is very interested in the world and who has a lot of passions beyond singing and playing guitar.

Far more interesting than problem solving is problem creation.

But anyone with the time and the inclination can acquire technical proficiency. To achieve greatness, though, that requires artistry. That requires imagination and thoughtfulness.

I think one of the most important things for creativity is boredom.

I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious.

I understand, as an artist as well as a producer, the need for there to be mystery and surprise.

If it were not for respect for human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time, whilst I would go five hundred leagues to talk with a man of genius whom I had not seen.

It's hard to make something that's interesting. It's really, really hard. It's like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that anything that's written or anything that's created wants to be mediocre. The natural state of all writing is mediocrity... So what it takes to make anything more than mediocre is such an act of will.

Stay loyal to your creativity because it's a gift.

David Bowie really played with ideas, and iconography and imagery. He's brilliant man. And a gentleman, too.