Seth Quotes

Forget the cringing selves you sometimes are and remember, instead, the magic essence of your own being that sings even now through your fingertips. That is the reality which you are seeking. Experience it fully.

The only thing that makes people and organizations great is their willingness to be not great along the way. The desire to fail along the way to reaching a bigger goal is the untold secret of success.

It's unlikely that you'll create something scarce without doing something risky to get there.

Do not place the words of ANYONE above the feelings of your own being. You can learn much from others, but the deepest knowledge must come from within yourself.

The best way to honor someone who has said something smart and useful is to say something back that is smart and useful. The other way to honor them is to go do something with what you learned.

We must be talented, powerful and resilient creatures indeed given how much we manage to produce despite the constant undercutting, ridicule and needless censorship we aim at ourselves.

Don’t try to make a product for everybody, because that is a product for nobody.

Creating ideas that spread and connecting the disconnected are the two pillars of our new society, and both of them require the posture of the artist

Ordinary thinking and ordinary effort are almost never enough to generate leadership.

When your ideas about yourself change, so does your experience.

As far as you are concerned the present is your point of action, focus and power, and from that point of volition you form both your future and past. Realizing this, you will understand that you are not at the mercy of a past over which you have no control.

It takes a lot of guts to stop measuring things that are measurable, and even more guts to create things that don't measure well by conventional means.

In your system of reality you are learning what mental energy is, and how to use it. You do this by constantly transforming your thought and emotions into physical form. You are supposed to get a clear picture of your inner development by perceiving the exterior environment. What seems to be a perception, an objective concrete event independent from you, is instead the materialization of your own inner emotions, energy, and mental environment.

Correct is fine but it is better to be interesting

An artists is someone who does something for the first time, something human, something that touches another.

If you are love with the perfect, prepare to see it swept away. If you are able to dream of the impossible, it just might happen.

We happily give up our freedom and our income in exchange for having someone else take responsibility for telling us what to do next.

There's a huge difference between the shallow pleasure of instant applause and the long-lasting impact of true connection.

It's never too late to redefine self-control, to change long-ingrained habits, and to do the work you're capable of.

If you do not have a loving concern for the environment... it will no longer sustain you - you will not be worthy of it. You will not be destroying the planet, you see. You will not be destroying the birds, or the flowers, or the grain, or the animals... they will be destroying you.

We can't rely on others to be our teachers anymorethe future belongs to individuals who decide to become great bosses (and teachers).

Don't worry about your stuff. Worry about making meaning instead.

Desire is action. In the inner world, your desires bring about their own fulfillment, effortlessly. That inner world, and the exterior one, intersect and interweave. They only appear separate. In the physical world, time may have to elapse, or whatever. Conditions may have to change, or whatever, but the desire will bring about the proper results. The feeling of effortlessness is what is important.

The only real help is self-help. Anything else is just designed to get you to the point where you can help yourself.

What could you measure? What would that cost? How fast could you get the results? If you can afford it, try it. If you measure it, it will improve.

The paradox is that by the time you get to be senior, the decisions that matter the most are the ones that would be best made made by people who are junior.

The next time you have a choice between chasing the charts (whichever charts you keep track of) and doing the work your customers crave, do the work instead.

Marketers need to spend less time making promises and more time keeping them.

The best time to do great customer service is when a customer is upset.

If you accept that human beings are difficult to change, and embrace (rather than curse) the uniqueness that everyone brings to the table, you’ll navigate the world with more bliss and effectiveness. And make better decisions, too.

Courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.

Don’t try to change someone’s worldview is the strategy smart marketers follow. Don’t try to use facts to prove your case and to insist that people change their biases. You don’t have enough time and you don’t have enough money. Instead, identify a population with a certain worldview, frame your story in terms of that worldview and you win.

Marketing is about spreading ideas, and spreading ideas is the single most important output of our civilization.

If you'd rather be a chooser, enter a market or a transaction where you have something to trade, something of value, something to offer that's difficult to get everywhere else. If all you have is the desire to get picked, that's not sufficient.

Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.

You create your own reality. There is no other rule.

Hard work is about risk. It begins when you deal with the things that you'd rather not deal with: fear of failure, fear of standing out, fear of rejection. Hard work is about training yourself to leap over this barrier, tunnel under that barrier, drive through the other barrier. And after you've done that, to do it again the next day

Marketing that works is marketing that people choose to notice.

Either you’re going to tell stories that spread, or you will become irrelevant.

Freedom isn't the ability to do whatever you want. It's the willingness to do whatever you want.

You want something, you dwell upon it consciously for a while, you consciously imagine it coming to the forefront of probabilities, closer to your actuality. Then you drop it like a pebble into Framework 2, forget about it as much as possible for a fortnight, and do this in a certain rhythm.

Leaps look good in the movies, but in fact, success is mostly about finding a path and walking it one step at a time.

Rather than simply interrupting a television show with a commercial or barging into the consumer’s life with an unannounced phone call or letter, tomorrow’s marketer will first try to gain the consumer’s consent to participate in the selling process.

Hatred of war will not bring peace. Only love of peace will bring about those conditions.

The best experiences and the biggest ideas don't fit into a category. They change it. They don't get filed away, they transform us.

People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories and magic.

The ends do not justify the means

Consciousness is, among other things, a spontaneous exercise in creativity. You are learning now, in a three-dimensional context, the ways in which your emotional and psychic existence can create varieties of physical form. You manipulate within the psychic environment, and these manipulations are then automatically impressed upon the physical mold.