Seth Godin The Dip Quotes & Sayings

To be a superstar, you must do something exceptional. Not just survive the Dip, but use the Dip as an opportunity to create something so extraordinary that people can't help but talk about it, recommend it, and, yes, choose it. — Seth Godin

The Dip is the long stretch between beginner's luck and real accomplishment. The Dip is the set of artificial screens set up to keep people like you out. — Seth Godin

Perceptions of the modern masons ranged from their being a group of harmless old men who liked to play dress-up ... all the way to an underground cabal of power brokers who ran the world. the truth, no doubt, was somewhere in the middle. — Dan Brown

And yet the real success goes to those who obsess. The focus that leads you through the Dip to the other side is rewarded by a marketplace in search of the best in the world. — Seth Godin

The Dip creates scarcity; scarcity creates value — Seth Godin

We know what you want to accomplish ... The real question is, 'what are you willing to push through the dip for?' What are you willing to stand up for, bleed for, commit to and generally be unreasonable about? Because that's what's going to actually get done. — Seth Godin

When you have something so important, something that you'll stay awake for, something you know that you were designed to do, well, it's worth getting a few dark circles, don't you think? — Joan Bauer

I'm not a fan of people romanticizing their loved ones in death. — Taya Kyle

The word passion means basically "to be affected," and passion is the essential energy of the soul. The poet Rilke describes this passive power in the imagery of the flower's structure, when he calls it a "muscle of infinite reception." We don't often think of the capacity to be affected as strength and as the work of a powerful muscle, and yet for the soul, as for the flower, this is its toughest work and its main role in our lives. Things — Thomas Moore

If you took organic chemistry in college, you've experienced the Dip. Academia doesn't want too many unmotivated people to attempt medical school, so they set up a screen. Organic chemistry is the killer class, the screen that separates the doctors from the psychologists. If you can't handle organic chemistry, well, then, you can't go to med school. — Seth Godin

Although self-reported endorsement of sexist attitudes didn't predict hiring bias, self-reported objectivity in decision making did. — Cordelia Fine

A well-defined backup plan is sabotage waiting to happen. Why push through the dip, why take the risk, why blow it all when there's the comfortable alternative instead? The people who break through usually have nothing to lose, and they almost never have a backup plan. — Seth Godin

The essential thing to know about the Dip is that it's there. Knowing that you're facing a Dip is the first step in getting through it. — Seth Godin

I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court. — Uri Geller

I live with carpe diem engraved on my heart. — M.F.K. Fisher

All his gentleness, all his kindness, all the bright shining gorgeousness of his love, he had always given to someone else. — Melissa De La Cruz

Anything worth achieving in life has a dip — Seth Godin

The challenge is simple: Quitting when you hit the Dip is a bad idea. If the journey you started was worth doing, then quitting when you hit the Dip just wastes the time you've already invested. Quit in the Dip often enough and you'll find yourself becoming a serial quitter, starting many things but accomplishing little. Simple: If you can't make it through the Dip, don't start. If you can embrace that simple rule, you'll be a lot choosier about which journeys you start. — Seth Godin