Seth Godin Quotes

I think there's always a call for people who are bucking the norm.

We've never tried to fit any mould because we already broke the one we started.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.

When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.

Don't listen to the prevailing majority points of view. If you have new ideas, push them.

You want to stand out and be unique and do something different. I always try to zig when they zag - I guess it's a football term, but it applies to a lot of different areas of life.

What's the fun in doing conventional things? I would rather be known as someone who is unconventional. I like being unconventional. I like doing things which are different. That's what I like... It gives me a boost as an actor.

If you truly want to be great, don't get caught up in what has been done before or who has done it.

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.

We not trying to do what everybody else is doing.

Creativity is an act of defiance.

The disobedient child is continuously condemned. The obedient child is, on the other hand, continuously praised. But have you heard of any obedient child having become world-famous in any dimension of creativity? Have you heard of any obedient child who has attained the Nobel prize for anything - literature, peace, science? The obedient child becomes just the common crowd. All that is added to existence is added by the disobedient.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

Whatever you do, don't play it safe. Don't do things the way they've always been done. Don't try to fit the system. If you do what's expected of you, you'll never accomplish more than others expect.

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.

I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that's too bad.

I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

I'm allergic to doing the obvious thing.

Never follow the crowd.

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.

Trends can tyrannize; trends are traps. In any creative industry, the fact that others are moving in a certain direction is always proof positive, at least to me, that a new direction is the only direction.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.