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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
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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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Something I stand for is being brave enough to invest in creative ideas that I firmly believe in and bringing those to life.
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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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One thing is to escape from prison, but what the Texas 7 did that night crossed the line they should have never crossed.
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The occupation of America (and Columbus's arrival quite clearly was an occupation, no one can deny that) meant that the entire history of the Native Americans was rendered invisible. The land could only be occupied if it was first defined as empty. So it was defined as a wilderness, even though it had been used by native people for millennia.
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This has not happened for a very long time, and to see it rising again--and to think that there are possibly tutors, professors, at universities who are brainwashing these young girls (and boys) into believing that men are dangerous -- the point really is that I'm holding the professors responsible for this.
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I became a documentary filmmaker because I wanted to make socially conscious films. I never studied filmmaking - everything I have learned has been on the field.
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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.
