Seth Godin Quotes

My early experiences in animation taught me that following someone else is not a great idea.

I don't like following in people's footsteps; I like making my own trail.

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

I followed my own self and individuality so much that it automatically made me a game changer or set me apart from others. I did not think it was necessary to do things the way others are doing it.

Never follow the crowd. Go where it's empty.

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

To the extent that independent means you're willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I'm independent until the day I die.

Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.

There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.

I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own baby.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

I'm so proud to be on a Kate Bush record; she's always marched to the beat of her own drum.

Work out of your work. Don't work out of anybody else's work.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

I just know that it's smart for my career to carve my own path and do my own thing.

I don't want to get myself in trouble - and I don't think I'm super important or anything - but I think it's so funny that when you look at the business and the way that people make decisions in their lives, whether they're in art or music or they're in industry, they forget that being unique is the answer.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.

I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People are so tied up in the worst parts of technology these days. They live a life pressing buttons. They don't use their imaginations.

Groups like The Mountain Brothers just have to keep on doing what they're doing - just make it dope and just make it different. And not try to compete with other people of color.

Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.

I just remember I wanted to make my own dynasty and not keep following trends. I wanted to make my own.

We have no precedents to guide us, and that is a glorious thing, for precedents, like other guides are disposed to grow tyrannical and refuse to let us do anything on our own initiative. Life grows wearisome in the countries where precedents and conventionality is rule and nothing can happen unless it has happen before.