Simon Sinek Quotes
We should invest in people not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people and good people can always make a bad idea better.
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
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Travelling is really great for giving you tons of ideas, but it's really hard to actually record anything on the road.
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I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.
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When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.
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The good ideas will survive.
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I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.
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It's so inspiring to be around other people who have ideas you haven't thought of, and all of a sudden you're like, 'Wow! That's so amazing!' I definitely want everything I do to just get better and better.
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In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.
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You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ideas and information. But no more.
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Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
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A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming fiction is expanding and extending it: stretching the rubber band of reality.
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If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.
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I'm a long distance runner, and I get my best ideas when I'm out running. It also helps that I can't write it down immediately - if you hold onto an idea, other things will stick on it.
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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
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Expose yourself to the products and promotions of other manufacturers, and your own field of new ideas will greatly increase.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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There is that unpredictability of the seasons that I enjoy. I like the threat of a tornado. I like the threat of four feet of snow.
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Before the Iraq war I was quite disturbed by some of the neoconservatives, who were saying things like, "What is the point of being a superpower if you can't do such-and-such, take on these responsibilities?" The point of being a superpower is that people will leave you alone.
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This opera has got that, but it's got a huge range of other amazing lyrical moments, for the chorus, the orchestra and the soloists. It's the variety of the music in it that is almost the hardest thing about conducting it.
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If I can't drive my old pickup to wherever I'm going, well, chances are good that I just won't go.
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We should invest in people not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people and good people can always make a bad idea better.
