The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there'...
SETH GODIN Most people have bosses who hire them to fill a slot in the work chart and to do what they are told....
SETH GODIN Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the t...
SETH GODIN A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an id...
SETH GODIN The number one thing to steal from your competitors: Wisdom.
SETH GODIN My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improve...
SETH GODIN One reason I encourage people to blog is that the act of doing it stretches your available vocabular...
SETH GODIN At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.
SETH GODIN The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following...
SETH GODIN Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pre...
SETH GODIN And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change p...
SETH GODIN The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.
SETH GODIN In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the sa...
SETH GODIN Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.
SETH GODIN Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's ...
SETH GODIN Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
SETH GODIN When enough people care about autism or diabetes or global warming, it helps everyone, even if only ...
SETH GODIN Habits like blogging often and regularly, writing down the way you think, being clear about what you...
SETH GODIN I find that I have about six bloggable ideas a day. I also find that writing twice as long a post do...
SETH GODIN Permission marketing turns strangers into friends and friends into loyal customers. It's not jus...
SETH GODIN Heretics must believe. More than anyone else in an organization, it's the person who's challenging t...
SETH GODIN Perfect is an illusion, one that was created to maintain the status quo. The Six Sigma charade is la...
SETH GODIN The secret of being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The s...
SETH GODIN Life's too short" is repeated often enough to be a cliche, but this time it's true. You don't have e...
SETH GODIN If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.
SETH GODIN How can you squander even one more day not taking advantage of the greatest shifts of our generation...
SETH GODIN That's your opportunity--to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interacti...
SETH GODIN The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for some...
SETH GODIN I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance…and if you have anxiety about initiating a pro...
SETH GODIN Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving ...
SETH GODIN If you don't know how it works, find out. If you're not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn't ...
SETH GODIN People have come to the erroneous conclusion that if they’re not willing to start something separa...
SETH GODIN The best way to be missed when you're gone,
Is to stand for something when you're here
SETH GODIN You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art...
SETH GODIN Not only must you be an artist, must you be generous, and must you be able to see where you can help...
SETH GODIN Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.
SETH GODIN The lizard brain is hungry, scared, angry, and horny.

The lizard brain only wants to eat ...
SETH GODIN The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work in a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, ...
SETH GODIN Dig your well before you're thirsty.
SETH GODIN People don't believe what you tell them.
They rarely believe what you show them.
They often ...
SETH GODIN The ability to change fast is the single most important asset in a world that's changing fast.
SETH GODIN Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, ...
SETH GODIN The thing about information is that information is more valuable when people know it. There's an...
SETH GODIN Anonymity is the enemy of civility.
SETH GODIN I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I th...
SETH GODIN Permission marketing is marketing without interruptions.
SETH GODIN Kickstarter eliminates the risk that publishers and booksellers face. They have limited resources an...
SETH GODIN The Net is not television. It is the finest direct-marketing mechanism in the history of mankind. It...
SETH GODIN Marketing is a contest for people's attention.
SETH GODIN Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art ...
SETH GODIN Art is what we call...the thing an artist does.

It's not the medium or the oil or the pri...
SETH GODIN If a lens makes a penny or a nickel or a dime a day, it doesn't seem like much until there's a milli...
SETH GODIN When in doubt, look for the fear. That's almost always the source of your doubt.
SETH GODIN Intellectual integrity goes beyond being clever-it requires that you put your ideas into the world.
SETH GODIN If you need to conceal your true nature to get in the door, understand that you'll probably have to ...
SETH GODIN Finding new ways, more clever ways to interrupt people doesn't work,
SETH GODIN Give up control and give it away, ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is goi...
SETH GODIN You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all ...
SETH GODIN How dare you squander even one more day not taking advantage of the greatest shifts of our generatio...
SETH GODIN Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers w...
SETH GODIN You are not your resume, you are your work.
SETH GODIN ...it was just not a good thing.
SETH GODIN The most popular TV show in America is a game show, ... People have been playing our games for years...
SETH GODIN Without a specific reason for the consumer to behave, without a reward or benefit, the overwhelmed c...
SETH GODIN Passion isn’t project-specific. It’s people-specific
SETH GODIN What Wonder understood, that Otto did not, is that if your idea spreads, you win,
SETH GODIN We're not going to outgrow our need for information.
SETH GODIN The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those read...
SETH GODIN If a product's future is unlikely to be remarkable - if you can't imagine a future in which ...
SETH GODIN to click on a link or buy online.
SETH GODIN The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent y...
SETH GODIN ...treasure what it means to do a day's work. It's our one and only chance to do something productiv...
SETH GODIN I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best...
SETH GODIN This is not a book for the wild-haired crazies your company keeps in a corner. It is a book for you,...
SETH GODIN For many of us, the happiest future is one that's precisely like the past, except a little better
SETH GODIN Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.
SETH GODIN If you can't be remarkable, perhaps you should consider doing nothing until you can.
SETH GODIN Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous inter...
SETH GODIN Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our...
SETH GODIN The road to comfort is crowded and it rarely gets you there. Ironically, it’s those who seek out d...
SETH GODIN A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts...
SETH GODIN The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.
SETH GODIN When you set down the path to create art, whatever sort of art it is, understand that the path is ne...
SETH GODIN ...the greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce. To create solutions and hustle th...
SETH GODIN I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then creat...
SETH GODIN Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them s...
SETH GODIN You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wo...
SETH GODIN As our society gets more complex and our people get more complacent, the role of the jester is more ...
SETH GODIN The competitive advantages the marketplace demands is someone more human, connected, and mature. Som...
SETH GODIN The tragedy is that society (your school, your boss, your government, your family) keeps drumming th...
SETH GODIN Discomfort brings engagement and change. Discomfort means you're doing something that others were un...
SETH GODIN Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your pa...
SETH GODIN Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of i...
SETH GODIN Perhaps your challenge isn't finding a better project or a better boss. Perhaps you need to get in t...
SETH GODIN If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the fut...
SETH GODIN An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo...
SETH GODIN The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The s...
SETH GODIN Difference between TV and the internet was how far you sat from the screen. TV was an 8 foot activit...
SETH GODIN There’s a huge difference between being childlike and being childish. When we embrace joy and look...
SETH GODIN Marketing used to be about advertising, and advertising is expensive. Today, marketing is about enga...
SETH GODIN One of the talents of the [late] great Steve Jobs is that he [knew] how to design Medusa-like produc...
SETH GODIN What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It's about leading an...
SETH GODIN Writing a book is a tremendous experience. It pays off intellectually. It clarifies your thinking. <...
SETH GODIN People don't believe what you tell them.
They rarely believe what you show them.
They ofte...
SETH GODIN Do extremely difficult work.

That seems obvious, right? If you do something that's valued...
SETH GODIN You look at most artists, the arc of their career, there's a definite decline at the end. And th...
SETH For me, the very last great strip is 'Peanuts.' After 'Peanuts,' there are a very fe...
SETH When I started out in the eighties, the idea of creating serious comics for adults was pretty laugha...
SETH I think obviously there's a core of who you are, and as you get older, you become more aware of ...
SETH The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.
ANDRE GODIN Thee anger, in which a person can hold, Only shows the true fear with in!
BRITTANY GODIN We are extremely pleased to be reporting such excellent improvements and results across all financia...
ANDRE GODIN There are a thousand forms of subversion, but few can equal the convenience and immediacy of a cream...
NOEL GODIN The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.
A. GODIN The government fails to realize if they don't declare it as contraband, how are we supposed to manag...
JASON GODIN Vodafone helps us extend the mobile computing environment for ThinkPad customers, giving users acces...
MARC GODIN We're not going to be the smoking police.
JASON GODIN Anytime you do something like this, you raise tensions in the institutions.
JASON GODIN I am lazy, but for some reason, I am so paranoid that I end up working hard.
SETH ROGEN I love speculating about solutions to problems in mathematics. I have no interest whatever in sudoku...
VIKRAM SETH When I realised that I had feelings for men as well as women, at first I was worried and frightened,...
VIKRAM SETH I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reform...
VIKRAM SETH If somebody writes clearly, you can pretty much tell immediately if something is shallow or deep, wh...
VIKRAM SETH You can talk good ideas out of existence.
VIKRAM SETH Good music is good music, but it has to be good.
VIKRAM SETH Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of...
VIKRAM SETH I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
VIKRAM SETH As for what I listen to after writing, it could be anything - but I've noticed that if the curre...
VIKRAM SETH I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
VIKRAM SETH The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying on...
VIKRAM SETH It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time t...
VIKRAM SETH Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story,...
VIKRAM SETH I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
VIKRAM SETH Do not write if there is no tremendous urge to do so. At the heart, there must be an inspiration or ...
VIKRAM SETH I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.
VIKRAM SETH In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
VIKRAM SETH I'm actually a very lazy person. Most of the time, I'm happy to sit around and stare. Or wat...
VIKRAM SETH Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are alre...
VIKRAM SETH My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.
VIKRAM SETH The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
VIKRAM SETH I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.
VIKRAM SETH I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.
VIKRAM SETH The most attractive habitats for synthetic sentience might be the vicinities of exceptional sources ...
SETH SHOSTAK If you ask most high schoolers who Bruce Lee is, they will say that it someone they sit next to in E...
SETH ROGEN I loved the Rumble that Shawn Michaels won. Bulldog threw him over, and he hung on by the skin of th...
SETH ROLLINS Hollywood usually guesses that extraterrestrials would only be interested in one of three things: (1...
SETH SHOSTAK It seems obvious that if a species has the brainpower for speech, along with the sort of appendages ...
SETH SHOSTAK Before I discovered CrossFit, I was really just doing regular bodybuilding, didn't understand at...
SETH ROLLINS 'The Brady Bunch' asks nothing of you as a viewer. Sometimes is just what the doctor ordered...
SETH MACFARLANE I wrote on a show called Johnny Bravo when I was at Hanna-Barbera.
SETH MACFARLANE True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will...
SETH BROWN God save us from people who mean well.
VIKRAM SETH If it looks like shit, smells like shit, and feels like shit, you don't have to actually eat it to k...
SETH EISENBERG Rules are just helpful guidelines for stupid people who can't make up their own minds.
SETH HOFFMAN Admittedly, it would take industrial-grade chutzpah and a massive dose of malevolence for anyone to ...
SETH SHOSTAK When I graduated high school, nearly a half-million people subscribed to 'Popular Electronics...
SETH SHOSTAK It's hard to imagine anything more interesting than learning how we're woven into the enormo...
SETH SHOSTAK My styles range quite a bit. I go for an all-around kind of fan. Never wanted to be the dude that co...
SETH ROLLINS Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives ra...
VIKRAM SETH Today's voguish threats, including climate change, population growth, massive war, and resource ...
SETH SHOSTAK It's worth noting that invoking God as the entity who set our universe in motion isn't contr...
SETH SHOSTAK I mean, we make a 15-minute show that's incredibly silly, even though all of our scenic designer...
SETH GREEN At one point, I was hell-bent on being a Disney animator, and sort of got over that in college and w...
SETH MACFARLANE A century ago, scientists believed there was only one obvious stomping ground for alien biology in o...
SETH SHOSTAK Working with Al Pacino was an amazing experience. He's such an amazing guy. He's an incredib...
SETH NUMRICH I don't make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I'm adding something...
SETH ROGEN Are two eyes, four appendages and an upright posture really essential for any creature that can ace ...
SETH SHOSTAK For just a few dollars a dose, vaccines save lives and help reduce poverty. Unlike medical treatment...
SETH BERKLEY The thing to keep in mind is that we're still in the very early days when it comes to the search...
SETH SHOSTAK 'What was there before the Big Bang?' That's a question that both kids and adults love t...
SETH SHOSTAK The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense...
SETH LOW You can't stop wars to build tertiary teaching hospitals, but you can say, 'Let's stop f...
SETH BERKLEY I love science, and I believe in it. I have a faith that science can solve problems and make the wor...
SETH BERKLEY When it comes to providing aid, developing innovations, and making bold steps that change the course...
SETH BERKLEY Investments in immunization yield a rate of return on a par with educating our children - and higher...
SETH BERKLEY History will not judge HIV/AIDS kindly... the harshest words will be reserved for how the world resp...
SETH BERKLEY I was a serial monogamist.
SETH BERKLEY In large part, thanks to widespread immunization, the number of young children dying each year has d...
SETH BERKLEY I wish we could have state-of-the-art hospitals in every corner of the earth... but realistically, i...
SETH BERKLEY We've actually eliminated Type II polio in the world, at least as far as we can tell.
SETH BERKLEY Now, you might think of flu as just a really bad cold, but it can be a death sentence. Every year, 3...
SETH BERKLEY Healthy children are more likely to attend school and are better able to learn. Healthy workers are ...
SETH BERKLEY When AIDS first appeared, people didn't know what it was. You'll remember that it affected m...
SETH BERKLEY Science is one of the comparative advantages of our knowledge-based economy, and focusing on our pro...
SETH BERKLEY The virus that causes AIDS is the trickiest pathogen scientists have ever confronted. It mutates fur...
SETH BERKLEY You'd see little shallow graves, lined up, one after the other - babies. That's what happens...
SETH BERKLEY New vaccines are being developed all the time, which could save many more lives and dramatically imp...
SETH BERKLEY Measles is probably the best argument for why there needs to be global health, and why we have to th...
SETH BERKLEY The return on investment in global health is tremendous, and the biggest bang for the buck comes fro...
SETH BERKLEY Now, when you get a viral infection, what normally happens is it takes days or weeks for your body t...
SETH BERKLEY Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.
SETH BERKLEY In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rura...
SETH SHOSTAK Each year, thousands of UFOs are sighted and reported, which is an impressive tally of unidentified ...
SETH SHOSTAK Of course there is still unexplored terrestrial territory, but most of it is waterlogged. Submersed ...
SETH SHOSTAK I've done bingo halls and tents in front of 10 people with a cow mooing in the background. Doing...
SETH ROLLINS I'm sure there are close calls that we're not even aware of hundreds of times a year. You cr...
SETH MACFARLANE My mother is an incredibly beautiful woman who has laughed at every single thing my father's eve...
SETH MEYERS By 2020, most home computers will have the computing power of a human brain. That doesn't mean t...
SETH SHOSTAK These are some of the things for which we believe the American people owe no little gratitude to the...
SETH LOW The bottom line is that finding orphan planets - small, faint, and located who-knows-where - is not ...
SETH SHOSTAK