Seth Godin Quotes

I think everyone is born creative but it can be suppressed by fear.

We're not born stuffy and boring.

Without freedom, there is no creation.

All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.

Some people become dullards, but as children we are all creative. It's in the programming, the socialization, that we lose our sense of play.

When you are not free, you are not creating; you are being created.

I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.

We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.

Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

People put limitations on their creativity, believing they have to rely on what they know and what they have done.

Creativity seldom thrives in an atmosphere of great discipline or scrutiny. That's one reason we tend not to want our leaders to get too creative.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

I believe this passionately: that we don't grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.

People said, ‘You must be mad, or on drugs,’ which I found a bit disappointing. What about imagination? It reflects our time that people sooner assume you’re on drugs or mad, rather than free.

Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake.

Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.

All of our existing ideas have creative possibilities.

Being wrong doesn't mean being creative - but if you aren't afraid of being wrong, you can't be creative.

We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.