Seth Godin Quotes

The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making.

I like creating the illusion that suddenly I've just done five things at once.

Things don't always look as they seem.

It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

As much as I've produced it looks to people like I must have written quickly, but it isn't that - because I put in in a sixty- or seventy-hour week.

An army is strengthened by labor and enervated by idleness.

A woman, like a cross-eyed man, looks one way, but goes another--hence her mysteriousness.

When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.

He looks like the good boy he's never been.

There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of workers in the world, the people who do all the work, and the people who think they do all the work. The latter class is generally the busiest, the former never have time to be busy.

I hate giving away tricks, you have to create an impression and not an image. You want audiences to look at certain places and not look at other places. And when you've got the help of modern-day abilities with technology, it's a much more natural look.

Don't think that you can make up for it by working twice as hard tomorrow. If you have it within your power to work twice as hard, why aren't you doing it now?

...what I try to do is a good bad picture. I work it out very carefully, and then I do something that looks as if it went wrong.

It takes less work to succeed than to fail.

All political power is primarily an illusion. Illusion. Mirrors and blue smoke, beautiful blue smoke rolling over the surface of highly polished mirrors, first a thin veil of blue smoke, then a thick cloud that suddenly dissolves into wisps of blue smoke, the mirrors catching it all, bouncing it back and forth.

The rules of magic, my dear, are best not discusses. For once we understand the illusion, we no longer believe it.

Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.

This happens to me every couple of years. I'll look at someone I respect and I'll realize that he's outworking me. It changes the way I behave for the next half decade.

Pitching was about fooling people, manipulating them, making them believe in something that ultimately wasn't there. Great pitching was great lying.

All times are good time for those who know how to work and have the tools to do so.

The lazy manage to keep up with the earth's rotation just as well as the industrious.

The harder you work, the more confidence you get. But you may be working hard on something that is false.

I can be busy for three years and you may not even know what I'm busy doing because you only see me in a few scenes here or there, but I've been working my tail off because there's just not a lot.

You've got to put your head down and do the work. There are no shortcuts.

Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.