Simon Sinek Quotes

Confidence is believing in yourself. Arrogance is telling others you’re better than they are. Confidence inspires. Arrogance destroys.

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• My worst date would be with someone nervous who has nothing to say. I like people who inspire me.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • People
  • Me
  • Say

• I want to do stories that inspire people.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • People
  • Want
  • Inspire

• I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• I definitely feel like kids do look up to me as a potential role model. It's an honor, but it can also be a burden. I may be on TV, but I'm also a teenager. I don't get it right every time. But I always do my absolute best to stay above board in every way. My fans inspire me to be a better person.

  

  Nathan Kress
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• Enough is enough. Enough of the waste. Enough of the spending. Enough of the debt. Enough of the arrogance in Washington, D.C.

  

  Dan Benishek
  • Enough
  • Debt
  • Arrogance

• I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Life
  • Me
  • Inspired

• I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Children
  • Me
  • Inspire

• I'm not having to go outside and switch the role model hat on. It's me, and it's important for me to leave that legacy to help inspire younger players because I didn't have a role model growing up.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Up
  • Important
  • Help

• My kids inspire me to be the person I am today - without them I wouldn't be who I am today.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Kids
  • Person
  • Inspire

• I want to inspire, and be inspired.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Want
  • Inspired
  • Inspire

• My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • Music
  • Inspire
  • Define

• There's such an arrogance to savers sometimes. And I'm a saver, so I can say that.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Arrogance
  • Saver

• When I hear a great new record, especially when it's by someone that I respect and admire, then a part of me is like, Why didn't I think of that? Why didn't I write that record? It makes you sick, but in a way it can be a great thing. It makes you want to go back to the lab and start writing again. Maybe it will inspire you to try a little harder.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• We were kids without fathers, so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history, and in a way, that was a gift. We got to pick and choose the ancestors who would inspire the world we were going to make for ourselves.

  

  Jay-Z
  • World
  • Kids
  • History

• I'm used to being behind a camera. That's much more natural for me. But if my life can inspire people, that's what I have to do. My idea is to be of service.

  

  Zana Briski
  • People
  • Life
  • Ideas

• I love New York. I love the multicultural vibe here. Los Angeles doesn't inspire me in any way. Everyone is in the same industry, yet you feel very isolated.

  

  Neve Campbell
  • Way
  • Feel
  • New York

• Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Honor
  • Arrogance
  • Solicitation

• Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • Hope
  • Inspire
  • Idealism

• All good writers inspire me as I have never thought I was any good. As far as a writer who made me think I could do it, it was Henry Miller. Not because I thought he was so simple that I reckoned I could pull it off as well, but it was his freedom and guts that really moved me to want to write all the time.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Simple

• Part of the beauty of the show in a way is that he's not perfect, but you can always count on him to do the right thing in a pinch. That's why he inspires people and inspires me.

  

  Stephen Collins
  • Perfect
  • Show
  • Inspire

• It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • God
  • Why
  • Kids

• I changed my writing style deliberately. My first two novels were written in a very self-consciously literary way. After I embraced gay subject matter, which was then new, I didn't want to stand in its way. I wanted to make the style as transparent as possible so I could get on with it and tell the story, which was inherently interesting.

  

  Edmund White
  • Writing
  • Interesting
  • Style

• Of course, we're so lucky to be in a time where that's not our reality anymore. I just thought it was very interesting to go back to that time now, and to look at all of these issues that are still relevant today, but just in such a different way, and to see how we approach them and try to overcome them. Yeah, we've come a long way with medicine and women's health in the Western world, but in a lot of parts of the rest of the world, that's still a huge issue.

  

  Eve Hewson
  • Reality
  • Interesting
  • Issues

• Confidence is believing in yourself. Arrogance is telling others you’re better than they are. Confidence inspires. Arrogance destroys.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Inspire
  • Arrogance