Jenny Rydén > Jenny's Quotes

“Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.”
― Seth Godin, Poke the Box

“Not only must you be an artist, must you be generous, and must you be able to see where you can help but you must also be aware. Aware of where your skills are welcomed.”
― Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

“Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.”
― Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

“You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.”
― Seth Godin, The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?

“The best way to be missed when you're gone,
Is to stand for something when you're here”
― Seth Godin

“People have come to the erroneous conclusion that if they’re not willing to start something separate, world-changing, and risky, they have no business starting anything. Somehow, we’ve fooled ourselves into believing that the project has to have a name, a building, and a stock ticker symbol to matter.”
― Seth Godin, Poke the Box

“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 make sense, play with it until it does. If it's not broken, break it. If it might not be true, find out.”
― Seth Godin

“Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don't start, you never get a chance.”
― Seth Godin, Poke the Box

“I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance…and if you have anxiety about initiating a project, then of course you will associate risk with failure.”
― Seth Godin, Poke the Box

“The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified and pick yourself. It doesn’t mean you have to be an entrepreneur or a freelancer, but it does mean you stand up and say, ‘I have something to say. I know how to do something. I’m doing it. If you want me to do it with you, raise your hand.”
― Seth Godin

“That's your opportunity--to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interactions that are worth sharing.”
― Seth Godin, Poke the Box

“How can you squander even one more day not taking advantage of the greatest shifts of our generation? How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?”

- Seth Godin, sethgodin.com”
― Seth Godin, Guerrilla Marketing for Home-Based Business

“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.”
― Seth Godin

“Life's too short" is repeated often enough to be a cliche, but this time it's true. You don't have enough time to be both unhappy and mediocre. It's not just pointless, it's painful. Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you ought to set up a life you don't need to escape from.”
― Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

“The secret of being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal. The only thing that makes people and organizations great is their willingness to be not great along the way. The desire to fail on the way to reaching a bigger goal is the untold secret of success.”
― Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

“Perfect is an illusion, one that was created to maintain the status quo. The Six Sigma charade is largely about hiding from change, because change is never perfect. Change means reinvention, and until something is reinvented, we have no idea what the spec is.”
― Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

“Heretics must believe. More than anyone else in an organization, it's the person who's challenging the status quo, the one who is daring to be great, who is truly present and not just punching a clock who must have confidence in her beliefs.
Can you imagine Steve Jobs showing up for the paycheck? It's nice to get paid. It's essential to believe.”
― Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

“What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

“He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Theory of Colours

“We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Night is the other half of life, and the better half.”
― Goethe

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Talent develops in solitude, character develops in the stream of life.”
― Goethe, Schiller, Hebel, et al

“It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.”
― Wolfgang Goethe

“There is strong shadow where there is much light.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Götz von Berlichingen