Seth Godin Quotes

Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

By the end of the week, if I'm still alive, I get to write whatever I want about it all.

No one got anywhere by being too scared to open their mouth in case nobody laughed.

You just have to do; you can't live by the rules of what you're supposed to do. I think every person is good at something, and you just have to push that forward.

I just got tired of waiting for things to happen through other people when so many other people are taking chances on following their dreams.

Action is about living fully. Inaction is the way that we deny life. Inaction is sitting in front of the television every day for years becuase you are afraid to be alive and to take the risk of expressing what you are. Expressing what you are is taking action.

If it's not happening, write your own thing!

If you have a book to write, write it. If you want to record an album, record it. No need to wait for someone in a cubicle halfway across the country to decide if you're worthy.

Make your own fun. As opposed to consume fun like a package of Spam.

You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

I think a lot of young people have incredible ideas and incredible insights, but sometimes they wait before they go give their life to something. What I did was just to start a little earlier.

When I find a role I want to play, I just go after it.

My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.

I tried to make a point of doing things outside the box, of not having basketball consume me.

You will never win if you never begin.

If you have a vision, do something with it.

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

You might as well go through life the way you want to. If what you want is to be engaged and forceful, to 'lean in,' well, do that.

As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.

I don't have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.