The following is Part 2 of leadership quotes from Seth Godin’s incredible book Linchpin. To read Part 1, click here.
This book has inspired, encouraged, and challenged me all at the same time. I can’t recommend it enough. Read the following quotes and tell me if you don’t agree.
- Depth of knowledge combined with good judgment is worth a lot.
- Linchpins are able to embrace the lack of structure and find a new path, one that works.
- You can spend your time on stage pleasing the heckler in the back, or you can devote it to the audience that came to hear you perform.
- The linchpin feels the fear, acknowledges it, then proceeds.
- If your boss won’t raise your bar, you should.
- If you’re remarkable, amazing, or just plain spectacular, you probably shouldn’t have a resume at all.
- In a race, sooner or later there’s a moment that separates the winner from those who don’t win. That instant is your chance, the moment you’ve been waiting for.
- His energy creates energy in those around him; his charisma turns into leadership.
- Most artists can’t draw. But all artists see. – Ron Simmons
- Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient…If art is a human connection that causes someone to change his mind, then you are an artist.
- People with passion look for ways to make things happen. The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin.
- Twitter became the fastest-growing communications medium in history. Not because it followed a model, but because it broke one.
- The easier it is to quantify, the less it’s worth.
- Artists think along the edges of the box, because that’s where things get done. That’s where the audience is, that’s where the means of production are available, and that’s where you can make an impact.
- The greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce.
- The only purpose of starting is to finish.
- Coordinating teams of people becomes exponentially more difficult as the group gets larger.
- Survival and success are not the same thing.
- Successful people are successful for one simple reason: they think about failure differently.
- You become a winner because you’re good at losing.
- Discomfort brings engagement and change. Discomfort means you’re doing something that others were unlikely to do, because they’re busy hiding out in the comfortable zone.
- The people who break through usually have nothing to lose, and they almost never have a backup plan.
- All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.
- Every creative person I know generates a slew of laughable ideas for every good one.
- One way to become creative is to discipline yourself to generate bad ideas. The worse the better. Do it a lot and magically you’ll discover that some good ones slip through.
- Fear is the most important emotion we have. It kept our ancestors alive, after all.
- Without our ability to avoid death, the other ones don’t matter very much.
Your thoughts on Seth’s comments?
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