Seth Godin Quotes

That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.

Sometimes you have to make decisions without knowing all that you would like to know That's part of the job.

The way I feel about rehearsals is that the best idea wins.

Our approach is not to look at the successes of other people and try to repeat those successes. We don't look at the success of 'Grand Theft Auto 3' and think that maybe if we create games for older audiences will see a similar success.

The game is about making the right decisions.

I am an entrepreneur in the entertainment industry. Somewhere early on when I couldn't get something I wanted through the system, I threw up my hands and tried to figure a way to get it done myself. A lot of it came from my upbringing. My dad was an entrepreneur.

We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.

Decisions can be a major challenge for all of us.

The most creative people have learned to tolerate the slight discomfort of indecision for much longer and so, just because they put in more pondering time, their solutions are more creative.

Hee that workes after his owne manner, his head akes not at the matter.

Possible is more a matter of attitude, a matter of decision, to choose among the impossible possibilities, when one sound opportunity becomes a possible solution.

The hero is the one with ideas.

I've always been making up my own restrictions for myself, from day one, and it's compelling, because it forces me to think. That's always been a driving force for me.

Invention is the pleasure you give yourself when other people's stuff isn't good enough.

We cannot lead a choiceless life. Every day, every moment, every second, there is a choice. If it were not so, we would not be individuals.

When I haven't any blue I use red.

Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.

To have a major breakthrough in policy, you have to be able to stop and think.

Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.

Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli

Strategy means making clear-cut choices about how to compete.

If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.

We’re taught to do things the right way. But if you want to discover something that other people haven’t, you need to do things the wrong way. Initiate a failure by doing something that’s very silly, unthinkable, naughty, dangerous. Watching why that fails can take you on a completely different path. It’s exciting, actually. To me, solving problems is a bit like a drug. You’re on it, and you can’t get off.

Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work.

If decisions were a choice between alternatives, decisions would come easy. Decision is the selection and formulation of alternatives.