Seth Godin Quotes

You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

There’s never a wrong idea. You just keep throwing stuff out and inevitably there are elements of different things that inspire a character or environment.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

When you're in the editing process, you try different things and you get creative ideas.

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

Nothing, believe me, nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death.

I'll stop when I run out of ideas.

I can't really say - if I've run out of ideas until I've had my next set of ideas.

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas.

It's how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten thousand idiotic ones must first be posed, sifted, tried out, and discarded. A mind that's afraid to toy with the ridiculous will never come up with the brilliantly original.

The person with just one good idea is a thousand times better off than the person with no good ideas.

[...] beer results in ideas, which results in new code.

My feeling is that as far as creativity is concerned, isolation is required. Creation is embarrassing. For every new good idea you have, there are a hundred, ten thousand foolish ones.

I wake up sometimes with an idea and then I write it down. It's not necessarily easy, but when you focus on something it comes.

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you.If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens.But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction.

You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then judge later. Don't cancel the process of creativity too early; let it flow.

In order to innovate, you have to experiment.

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

I think that everything is part of creativity - the more you create, the more you have ideas, and the more you meet people.

I like to start with the ordinary, and then nudge it, and then think, 'What happens next, what happens next?'

My good ideas are shy. But if they see that I treat the stupid ideas with respect, they come forward.