Seth Godin Quotes

Comfort is the enemy of the artist.

i have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side.

If you're not frustrated, you're not producing.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look - for dizzier heights.

Discomfort is the way to go if you want to make something you feel is worthwhile.

Mediocrity never goes away - but neither, I hope, do those who are willing to challenge it.

Comfort is the enemy of creativity.

Excellence requires discomfort.

As you've probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.

Every time, I reaffirm in myself that the more comfortable you are, the less you are creating. You have to feel a little bit of pain in the creation.

Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.

Innovation is not born from the dream, innovation is born from the struggle

It's a lot easier to lose than it is to win. It's easier, but it's not more comfortable.

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

Labor is really going to hurt.

Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning.

I think we are in the process of getting the word out, and we haven't done very well yet. But we are trying.

Genius, like a thunderstorm, comes up against the wind.

It is easy to get to the top after you get through the crowd at the bottom.

Effort supposes resistance.

If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.

All excellence is equally difficult.

Hope and change are hard-fought things.

The most important actions are never comfortable.

The greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.