Simon Sinek Quotes

Leaders are the ones who have the courage to go first, to put themselves at personal risk to open a path for others to follow.

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• Green policy is about triggering a shift to a cleaner way of doing things. To be effective, it needs to incentivise the right behaviour, for example through tax breaks, and that needs to be paid for by disincentives on polluting behaviour.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Doing
  • Green
  • Tax

• I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist, then one that works on your feet, your leg. But I believe George Benson is the one that plays all over. To me, he would be the M.D. of them all.

  

  B. B. King
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Guitar

• My uncle Shawn used to stay with us when we were really young, and I used to come downstairs and see him break dancing on this piece of a cardboard. I probably always thought they were cool since then. I never knew his comedy, but I used to always see him break dancing. And he was terrible at it.

  

  Damon Wayans, Jr.
  • Comedy
  • Cool
  • Thought

• The song of canariesNever varies,And when they're moultingThey're pretty revolting.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Pretty
  • Song

• Government has no right to hurt the hair of an Atheist for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices.

  

  John Adams
  • Hair
  • Hurt
  • Atheist

• Being nice is awesome. You have more fun; you meet more people.

  

  Charli XCX
  • People
  • Fun
  • Nice

• I sang with my father for over 50 years, and now all of a sudden he's gone, and I just dropped out.

  

  Mavis Staples
  • Father

• Obedience is the primary object of all sound education.

  

  Elizabeth Missing Sewell
  • Education

• I remember that poster of Led Zeppelin with the plane. I had it on my wall when I was a kid. I thought that was the coolest. It amazes me that it came true.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Remember
  • True
  • Wall

• Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.

  

  Pericles
  • People
  • Action

• I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • Up
  • Business

• Unlike Facebook or Instagram, Twitter's core experience isn't about photos. It's a world of text, with occasional embedded photos, animated gifs, and short video clips.

  

  Om Malik
  • World
  • Experience
  • Text

• I was never a gym person before 'Game Of Thrones.' The idea of it was a bore to me - and it kind of still is - but I had a problem with my knee, so I can't play sport as much as I'd like to.

  

  Alfie Allen
  • Game
  • Gym

• I start writing songs first as an entertainer, and I like funny stories that wrap up with dignity.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Funny

• I had a very lovely childhood, and, being an only child, I'm very close to my mom and my dad.

  

  Luke Evans
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Childhood

• Being a plus-size actress, it is slim pickings, so anytime any role comes up for a plus-size actress, my agents are all over it, and they were like, 'You have to book this job. It's 'American Horror Story.' It's a big deal.' No pressure, right?

  

  Chrissy Metz
  • Up
  • Job
  • Book

• I found out animation is incredibly boring. You draw and draw and draw, and it's only a few seconds done in a week.

  

  Caroll Spinney
  • Done

• If you were in Spain or Brazil, most of the population there is interacting with WhatsApp multiple times a day.

  

  Jim Goetz

• Interest rates do not have to be identical across the whole euro area, but it is unacceptable if major differences arise from broken capital markets or concern about a euro area break-up.

  

  Mario Draghi
  • Up
  • Broken

• The best way to send information is to wrap it up in a person.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Up
  • Way
  • Person

• It has historically been a comfort for the bourgeois and that you can read the most extreme books and not change. You can read A Christmas Carol and not change in any way.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Book
  • Way
  • Christmas

• Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Life
  • Politics
  • Measures

• My hobby is silence.

  

  Leon Russell
  • Silence

• Leaders are the ones who have the courage to go first, to put themselves at personal risk to open a path for others to follow.

  

  Simon Sinek