The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
In other words, If you don't take action, you won't get any results You are not your resume, you are your work — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If it's work, we try to figure out how to do less, If it's art, we try to figure out how to… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
In the long run, doing work that's important leads to more happiness than doing work that's merely profitable. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
That's your opportunity - to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interactions that are worth sharing. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The joy of art is particularly sweet, though, because it carries with it the threat of rejection, of failure, and of missed… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If you're going to build a lean enterprise, you can test and measure how often the company ships iterations, how often it… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
It turns out that the people who like their jobs the most are also the ones who are doing the best work,… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Seizing new ground, making connections between people or ideas, working without a map-these are works of art, and if you do them,… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Many people are starting to realize that they work a lot and that working on stuff they believe in (and making things… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Courage doesn't always involve physical heroism in the face of death. It doesn't always require giant leaps worthy of celebration. Sometimes, courage… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“On top of this, if you do great work you gain the reward of knowing you’re doing great work. Your day snaps… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“Do extremely difficult work. That seems obvious, right? If you do something that's valued but scarce because it's difficult, you're more likely… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“It turns out that the people who like their jobs the most are also the ones who are doing the best work,… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The rest of the world isn't nearly as important as the few who are here. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“The challenge is to focus on the work, not on the fear that comes from doing the work.” — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
It's entirely possible that there won't be a standing ovation at the end of your journey. That's okay. At least you lived. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The Cul-de-Sac ( French for "dead end" ) ... is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Remarkable work is always not on the list, because if it was, it would be commonplace, not remarkable. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The opportunity is not in being momentarily popular with the anonymous masses. It's in being missed when you're gone, in doing work… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Kickstarter eliminates the risk that publishers and booksellers face. They have limited resources and limited shelf space, and Kickstarter is proof to… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The myth that the CEO is going to discover you and nurture you and ask you to join her for lunch is… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I was amplifying the negative at the expense of the positive, not to serve any useful function, not to make my writing… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
...treasure what it means to do a day's work. It's our one and only chance to do something productive today, and it's… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“You weren't born to be a cog in the giant industrial machine. You were trained to become a cog. There's an alternative available to… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Forgive yourself for not being the richest, the thinnest, the tallest, the one with the best hair. Forgive yourself for not being the most… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The next thing you do today will be the most important thing on your agenda, because, after all, you're doing it next. Well, perhaps… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I look at Starbucks, Howard Schultz has made many brilliant decisions, and one of the things that they did was they invented the third… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The public square is more public than ever, but minds are rarely changed in 140 character bursts and by selfies. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Making an average pitch to average people, or having an average gala for average people isn't going to scale anymore. You've got to find… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Our job is to make change. Our job is to connect to people, to interact with them in a way that leaves them better… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“Life is actually far better than it is in the movies. And it takes longer.” — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
