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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Scientists and academics in particular focus on detail and the minutiae. When they talk to each other, they usually don't focus on the broad ideas; they don't focus on social interconnectedness. They focus on the task that they're doing.
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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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I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There's a shoe box in my closet filled with these notebooks, each riddled with notes and impressions, ideas, schemes, and soup recipes.
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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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Ideas move fast when their time comes.
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
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There's many things in this world that will depress you, and make you good for nothing, if you take them seriously, and that cheer you up if you don't.
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There aren't any moral victories.
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Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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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.
