Seth Godin Quotes

If you want something, you can't wait for someone to make it happen for you.

I've realized along the way that a lot of things that I do as a performer are about waiting for somebody to write something for me or develop something for me, but music, music was the thing that I don't have to wait for anybody's permission to do.

Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.

You shouldn't wait for other people to make special things happen. You have to create your own memories.

If the opportunities are not being presented to me, I'm going to take the reins and do it. Brit Marling was not waiting for the phone to ring. The great roles are not there to be had. If you have an idea, do it.

I would say to someone, 'Make your own stuff sooner.' Also, it's OK to say no to something if it doesn't feel right.

I definitely feel like I'm at that point where it's nice to not have to sit at home and wait to be invited to the party, but to be creating work for yourself.

If people want to find things, they find them themselves.

Typically, my advice to young artists is not to wait for someone to allow you to do the thing. Just do the thing, and they'll catch up.

My mother often told us that it is a poor dog that will not wag its own tail.

I don't complain about other people's game - I just create my own.

Be a creator of circumstances rather than just a creature of circumstances. Be proactive rather than reactive.

I don't think you should sit around and wait for people to give you an opportunity to express yourself or do your work, or whatever. Actors have to be producers and writers have to be producers.

If it's not happening, write your own thing!

She believed in dreams, all right, but she also believed in doing something about them. When Prince Charming didn't come along, she went over to the palace and got him.

You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it

we cant wait for someone else to do it, we have to take matters into our own hands or it will never be done.

Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

I don't want to wait for Hollywood to decide that what I do is good.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

It was only when I started to dig my heels in that I started to realize that's what I needed to do - that nobody was going to open the door for me, that I had to make some space.

Writing is something I can do by myself.

I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.

Don't wait for someone to call you up. You can do anything. You have all the possibilities in the world.