The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he was a typist.
SG
Seth GodinSeth's Blog, 'The importance of going first' (2012)
About Seth Godin
American author and blogger on marketing, leadership and creative work. (b. 1960)
More from Seth Godin
- The problem with competition is that it takes away the requirement to set your own path, to invent your own method, to find a new way.Seth's Blog, 'Competition as a crutch' (2012)
- Listen instead to your real customers, to your vision and make something for the long haul. Because that's how long it's going to take.Seth's Blog, 'The secret of the web' (2008)
- In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure.Purple Cow (2003)
- A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea.Tribes (2008)
More quotes on creativity and innovation
- Research your own experience; absorb what is useful, reject what is useless and add what is essentially your own.Bruce Lee
- Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.Bruce Lee
- Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others.Pablo Picasso
- There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence transform a yellow spot into a sun.Pablo Picasso
- [Computers] are useless. They can only give you answers.Pablo Picasso
- Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.Vincent van Gogh
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