Tag: Curiosity

Seth Godin Quotes To Inspire You To Try Something For The First Time

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Motivational Quotes
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‘Without the spark of initiative, you have no choice but to simply react to the world. Without the ability to instigate and experiment, you are stuck, adrift, waiting to be shoved.’- Seth Godin

‘Ownership doesn’t have to be equity or even control. Ownership comes from understanding and from having the power to make things happen.’- Seth Godin

‘The only defensible way to thrive is to double and then double again. To innovate on the way to innovating, to start on the way to starting yet again.’- Seth Godin

‘Aimless is where we end up when we don’t care so much about where we’re going, or we try to hide and limit our contributions.’- Seth Godin

‘Flux is flow. … The economy demands flux. Flux isn’t risky. Flux is what we’re in for. Fortunately, flux is also what we were born for.’- Seth Godin

‘Excellence isn’t about working extra hard to do what you are told. It’s about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.’- Seth Godin

‘Curiosity drives us to the haunted house because the thrills lie in what we don’t expect, not in what’s safe.’– Seth Godin

‘Change is powerful, but change always comes with failure as its partner.’- Seth Godin

‘If you don’t finish, it doesn’t really count as starting, and if you don’t start, you’re not poking.’- Seth Godin

‘... focus on the work, not on the fear that comes from doing the work.’- Seth Godin

‘People get good gigs because they stand up.’

‘People with no credibility or resources rarely get the leverage they need to bring their ideas to the world. People with credibility and resources are so busy trying to hold on to them that they fail to bring their provocative ideas to the world.’

‘The greatest challenge any successful organization faces is finding the guts to risk that success in order to accomplish something great.’

‘Starting something is not an event; it’s a series of events.’- Seth Godin

‘Every step is a new beginning.’- Seth Godin

‘Action is easy once you have a plan.’- Seth Godin

‘Starting doesn’t mean controlling. It means initiating. Managing means controlling…’- Seth Godin

Source

Seth Godin (2011). Poke the Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?

‘Creating A World Of Abundance’

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in BriSights, Health & Well-Being, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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‘Today, we need to fundamentally change the software of our mental and instinctual programming from one based on threat and survival to one of promise and prosperity.’

‘Our future is not cast in stone. It is a malleable and dynamic fabric of amazing potentialities, possibilities, and probabilities. And every passing moment is an opportunity for our intervention.’

‘Every act is an irrevocable selection and inclusion. In other words, by making the deliberate choice- or allowing others to make the choice for us- we determine the future state!

‘If the world were perfect, it would be. Problems are life’s essential feedstock. Without problems to solve, there is no motivating tension; without tension, there is no progress; without progress, there is only stagnation.’

‘The minute you believe something is impossible, it becomes impossible for you. I believe that there are very few problems that can’t be solved with imagination, innovation, and competent entrepreneurship- provided they don’t break too many laws of physics.’

‘People tend to get caught up in seeing the world only as it is and not imagining what the world could be. If you focus only on what the world is, then you are resigning yourself to a particular destiny.’

‘People often say the sky is the limit. The sky is not the limit. There is no such limit. It is an articficial boundary. Imagination is our only limit.‘

‘All the transformation we need is available on demand as a function of our search. Today that works requires an intermediary- a mobile phone or computer that connects us to information. Tomorrow we may not require the intermediary.’

‘Our curiosity doesn’t die out, it is wiped out. Consequently, as would-be moonshot entrepreneurs, it’s likely that we’ll have a little rehabilitation to do.’

‘Curiosity doesn’t care about comfort. Curiosity has no fear of the unknown. Curiosity is precisely about being drawn to novel things because they are new and strange and unknown.’

Source

Naveen Jain and John Schroeter (2018). Moonshots: Creating a World of Abundance