Seth Quotes & Sayings

If you're considering word of mouth, stability and lifetime value, it's almost always true that the easier it is to get someone's attention, the less it's worth. — Seth

The very fact that it might not work is precisely why you should and must do this. — Seth

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

The basic idea of karma is not punishment. Karma presents the opportunity for development; to make use of opportunities that were not taken advantage of, to fill in gaps of ignorance, to enlarge understanding through experience, to do what should be done. — Seth

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

You know something is important when you're willing to let someone else take the credit if that's what it takes to get it done. — Seth

When you focus on delighting an audience you care about, you strip the masses of their power. — Seth

It doesn't matter if you're right, it matters if you are understood. — Seth

The real problem when working with a consultant, a therapist or a coach isn't that we don't know what to do. The real problem is that we don't want to change our mind. — Seth

It's easier to love a brand when the brand loves you back. — Seth

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

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

Realize that your physical experience and environment is the materialization of your beliefs. If you find great exuberance, health, effective work, abundance, smiles on the faces of those who you meet, then take it for granted that your beliefs are beneficial. If you see a world that is good, people like you, take it for granted again, that your beliefs are beneficial. But if you find poor health, a lack of meaningful work, a lack of abundance, a world of sorrow and evil, then assume your beliefs are faulty and begin examining them. — Seth

Cosmo Girl with a passion for fashion and a magic flask. — Seth

Marketing that works is marketing that people choose to notice. — Seth

When you delight the weird, the overlooked and the outliers, they are significantly more likely to talk about you and recommend you. — Seth

More than ever, we express ourselves with what we buy and how we use what we buy. Extensions of our personality, totems of our selves, reminders of who we are or would like to be. Great marketers don't make stuff. They make meaning. — Seth

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

You are meant to understand the nature of your inner self, and to manifest it outward. — Seth

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

Correct is fine but it is better to be interesting — Seth

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. — Seth

Don't try to please everyone. There are countless people who don't want one, haven't heard of one or actively hate it. So what? — Seth

You must realize that what you are cannot be seen in a mirror.
What you see in a mirror is but a dim reflection of your true reality. — Seth

In the next life you will be working with those attitudes that are now yours. — Seth

Ideas that spread win. Ideas don't have to be selfish to win, in fact, it turns out that the more generous the interactions an idea produces, the more likely it is to spread. — Seth

Try is the opposite of hiding. — Seth

There is no other way to change your physical reality but by changing your thoughts. — Seth

You can either fit in or stand out. Not both. — Seth

Just because you're winning a game doesn't mean it's a good game. — Seth

Am saying that lesbianism, homosexuality, and heterosexuality are valid expressions of man's bisexual nature.
I am also stressing the fact that love and sexuality are not necessarily the same thing. Sex is love's expression, but it is only one of love's expressions. — Seth

For at no time are any events predestined. There should be no such word in your vocabulary, for with every moment you change, and every heartbeat is an action, and every action changes every other action. — Seth

I think obviously there's a core of who you are, and as you get older, you become more aware of what behavior is immutable. For a long time, I felt there was a deep separation between the person I was as a teenager and the person I was in my 20s and early 30s . — Seth

We believe what we want to believe, and once we believe something, it becomes a self-fulfilling truth. — Seth

I'm over here in my unit, isolated and alone, eating my terrible tasting food, and I have to look over at that. That looks like the most fun I've ever seen in my entire life, and it's B.S. - excuse my language. I'm just saying that I wash and dry; I'm like a single mother. Look, we all know home-ec is a joke - no offense - it's just that everyone takes this class to get an A, and it's bullshit - and I'm sorry. I'm not putting down your profession, but it's just the way I feel. I don't want to sit here, all by myself, cooking this shitty food - no offense - and I just think that I don't need to cook tiramisu. When am I gonna need to cook tiramisu? Am I going to be a chef? No. There's three weeks left of school, give me a fuckin' break! I'm sorry for cursing. — Seth

The world of [comic book] collecting is not a pretty place. For a bunch of guys who like good-over-evil stories, you sure meet a lot of morally bankrupt assholes. — Seth

We can't suddenly quit a job and then race to find a form of art that will pay off before the next mortgage payment is due. Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it ... Art isn't about the rush of victory that comes from being picked. Nor does it involve compliance. Art in the post-industrial age is a lifelong habit, a stepwise process that incrementally allows us to create more art. — Seth

A generation that hates war will not bring peace. A generation that loves peace will bring peace. — Seth

For me, the very last great strip is 'Peanuts.' After 'Peanuts,' there are a very few strips that I enjoyed for different reasons, but I don't think they were great. I don't think anything's come along since Charles Schulz - and I mean since 1950 - that I think rises above the professional or the eccentric into that realm of greatness. — Seth

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

If you make a difference, people will gravitate to you. They want to engage, to interact and to get you more involved. — Seth

I came to the big city and I started to get involved in the punk scene and stuff, and I wanted to sort of brand myself. I made a pretty conscious effort to be a different type of person. — Seth

To act in an independent manner, you must begin to initiate action that you want to occur physically by creating it in your own being. This is done by combining belief, emotion and imagination, and forming them into a mental picture of the desired physical result. — Seth

Your intent to find a mate sends out 'strands of consciousness'
however, composed of desire and intent. Like detectives, these
search the world, looking in a completely different way than
a physical sleuth. The world is probed with your characteristics
in mind, seeking for someone else with characteristics that will
best suit your own. — Seth

I'm not sure there's any number of Facebook likes that can replace a hug. — Seth

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

Knowing what to do is very, very different than actually doing it. — Seth

My life is mine and I form it. Tell yourself this often. Create your own life now, using your beliefs as an artist uses color. — Seth

Now: For those of you who are lazy I can offer no hope: death will not bring you an eternal resting place. You may rest, if this is your wish, for a while. Not only must you use your abilities after death, however, but you must face up to yourself for those that you did not use during your previous existence ... — Seth

Stop advertising and start innovating. — Seth

The goal isn't to do work and hand it in just before it's due. The goal is to do the work as beautifully as you can, faster than anyone else, so you can do more work. — Seth

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. — Seth

The linchpin is an individual who can walk into chaos and create order, someone who can invent, connect, create, and make things happen. Every worthwhile institution has indispensable people who make differences like these. — Seth

A good job is largely anonymous and forgotten (but still important). A personal job, on the other hand, is humanized. It brings us closer together. It might not be remarkable, but it stands out as memorable because (however briefly) the recipient of the work was touched by someone else. Often, remarkable work is personal too, but personal might just be enough for today. — Seth

The most I can do is to acquaint you with the authority of your own psyche - to give you a trust in the nature of your being. For, if you trust what you are, you can never go wrong in whatever terms you use. You can fly through belief systems as a butterfly flies through back yards. — Seth

I'm screwed up
I'm so full of contempt for everyone and everything. I mean, sure, I like lots of things but ... I don't know. I've just become too goddamn judgmental! — Seth

The present is the point of power. — Seth

I believe that all creativity and consciousness is born in the quality of play, as opposed to work, in the quickened intuitional spontaneity that I see as a constant through all my own existences, and in the experience of those I know. — Seth

My mother-in-law is obsessed with clowns. — Seth

On the one hand you take life too seriously, and on the other, you do not take playful existence seriously enough. — Seth

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

The connection economy rewards the leader, the initiator, and the rebel. — Seth

Do not personally give any more conscious consideration, either of you, to events that you do not want to happen. Any such concentration, to whatever degree, ties you in with those probabilities, so concentrate upon what you want, and as far as public events are concerned, take it for granted that sometimes even men are wiser than they know. — Seth

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. — Seth

We have been brainwashed by school, indoctrinated by industrial propaganda, and mesmerized by the popular media into believing that compliance is not only safe but right and necessary. — Seth

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. — Seth

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

Your impulses are your closest communication with your inner self, because in the waking state they are the spontaneous urgings toward action, rising from that deep inner knowledge of yourself that you have in dreams. — Seth

As an organization grows and succeeds, it sows the seeds of its own demise by getting boring. — Seth

People claim that love is the deepest feeling, but don't you believe it. Loneliness is the most affecting of human emotions. Nothing makes life more vivid. If you wish to live in the moment, I recommend intense loneliness. — Seth

Remarkable marketing is the art of building things worth noticing right into your product or service. Not slapping on marketing as a last-minute add-on, but understanding that if your offering itself isn't remarkable, it's invisible. — Seth

Don't try to make a product for everybody, because that is a product for nobody. — Seth

Either you're going to tell stories that spread, or you will become irrelevant. — Seth

Powerful advertising is anticipated, personal, and relevant. — Seth

If you want to know what you think of yourself, then ask yourself what you think of others and you will find the answer. — Seth

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. — Seth

It is not understood that before life an individual decides to
live. A self is not simply the accidental personification of the
body's biological mechanism. Each person born desires to be born.
He dies when that desire no longer operates. No epidemic or illness
or natural disaster - or stray bullet from a murderer's gun - will
kill a person who does not want to die. — Seth

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. — Seth

Advertising is just a symptom, a tactic. Marketing is about far more than that. — Seth

If you are in poor health, you can remedy it. If your personal relationships are unsatisfactory, you can change them for the better. If you are in poverty, you can find yourself surrounded by abundance ... Each of you, regardless of position, status, circumstances, or physical condition, is in control or your own experience. — Seth

Life is a buzzer box. Poke it. — Seth

The magical approach is indeed the natural approach to life's experience. It is the adult version of childhood knowledge, the human version of the animals' knowledge, the conscious version of 'unconscious' comprehension. — Seth

When I started out in the eighties, the idea of creating serious comics for adults was pretty laughable to most folks, and for the longest time it was hard to even explain what alternative comics or graphic novels were. Nobody seemed to understand or care. Not so, any longer. — Seth

I come here because it is fun. I have fun when I come here. I do not come here because I feel that I have any great responsibility for your beings or welfare. Who am I to set myself against the innate wisdom of your own individual being, or to take upon my invisible shoulders the great privilege or joyful responsibility for your behavior and destiny? — Seth

And when you realize that you form the events of your life in the same way, you will learn to take hold of your entire consciousness in whatever aspect it shows itself in this life. Through all of this you must realize that you are not powerless. Remember, also, that this life is a dimension of experience and reality even if it is, in contrast, a dream in a higher level of reality in which you have your larger consciousness. — Seth

Physical reality springs from the imagination, which follows the path of your beliefs — Seth

The past existed in multitudinous ways. You only experienced one probable past. By changing this past in your mind, now, in your present, you can change not only its nature but its effect, and not only upon yourself but upon others. — Seth

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. — Seth

Alas, there isn't a pain-free way to achieve your goals. — Seth

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. — Seth

You create your own reality. — Seth

You create your reality according to your beliefs and expectations, therefore you should examine these carefully. If you do not like some aspect of your world, then examine your own expectations. — Seth

True creativity comes from enjoying ?the? moments, which then fulfill themselves, and a part of the creative process is indeed the art of relaxation, the letting go, for that triggers magical activity ... — Seth

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. — Seth

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

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. — Seth

If you become so frightened of realities that are not your own, if you take upon yourselves tragedies that do not exist in your reality, in your moment, then you weaken your position and weaken the position, of those you think you are helping. You look about you and you see only hopelessness and helplessness. You organize your reality according to the tragedies of the newspapers! — Seth

Sometimes we spend more time than we should defending the old thing, instead of working to take advantage of the new thing. — Seth

In a world of free, everyone can play. — Seth

The Internet is going to change marketing before it changes almost anything else, and old marketing will die in its path. — Seth