Simon Sinek Quotes

Though there are lessons that can be learned about becoming a great leader, most exist inherently in the bellies of those who lead.

Simon Sinek

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• When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Men
  • Home
  • Clothes

• When you're a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • You
  • Food
  • Chain

• The Rock will always come back to us.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Rock
  • Always
  • Back

• Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Place

• You and I, 22 million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America. You're nothing but Africans. Nothing but Africans. In fact, you'd get farther calling yourself African instead of Negro. Africans don't catch hell. You're the only one catching hell. They don't have to pass civil-rights bills for Africans.

  

  Malcolm X
  • America

• Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories. And they will figure out how those stories apply to them.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Live

• If I could only have you nearTo breathe a sigh or twoI would be happy just to hold the hands I loveOn this winters night with you

  

  Gordon Lightfoot
  • Happy
  • Night
  • Breathe

• And even if they hadn't told me, I would have known it was the coldest winter ever. Because I have not had one thought! I have not been able to complete a sentence in my own head! I find myself walking around going 'You know what, I should really... FUCK, IT'S COLD!'

  

  Lewis Black
  • Walking
  • Cold
  • Winter

• The 14th of 15 kids, I was the second youngest - not a coveted spot on the family totem pole.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Family
  • Kids

• You have to see the human being in the enemy. If there is potential for change, there is still hope.

  

  Deborah Ellis
  • Hope
  • Enemy

• Family is funny, and so it was not an unnatural thing for me, growing up, not to know anything about my dad or about the Vance side of our family.

  

  Courtney B. Vance
  • Up
  • Family
  • Funny

• I really like people who have the gift of the gab. I like characters that are very eloquent, articulate and confident in what they're saying. Especially coming off 'Captain America,' who's very internal and intimate, I'd love to play someone who wears their emotions on their sleeves, potentially to a fault.

  

  Chris Evans
  • People
  • America

• I never take on anything that is just for the money or just for, you know. I always have to connect with it in a very personal way because I believe the audience will sense whether I'm into it or not, so I don't take on projects that I'm not really passionate about.

  

  Deborah Cox
  • Believe
  • Money

• I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Present
  • Deep

• No one likes doing primate experiments, but some research can only be done on monkeys.

  

  Mark Walport
  • Done

• I listen to all the top 20 songs, and top 20 albums, even the rap albums. But I don't like negative messages. If somebody is putting a lot of ego out there, I don't like it. When I make my records I want it to be sincere.

  

  Kenneth Bruce Gorelick
  • Rap
  • Ego

• I had the great opportunity to work with some of the greatest artists - the Beach Boys, the Temptations, the Four Tops. Otis Redding. Wilson Pickett. Stevie Wonder. So many great singers. And don't forget Clarence Carter!

  

  Percy Sledge
  • Work
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• My mother went into the Peace Corps when she was sixty-eight.

  

  Billy Carter
  • She
  • Mother
  • Peace

• Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

  

  John Wesley

• Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Words
  • Habit
  • Actions

• The most profound security threat we face today is global warming....climate change has the capacity to change the way all of us live.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Climate Change
  • Global Warming
  • Security threat

• A first difficulty of the Arab movement was to say who the Arabs were. Being a manufactured people, their name had been changing in sense slowly year by year. Once it meant an Arabian. There was a country called Arabia; but this was nothing to the point.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • People
  • Country
  • Year

• Though there are lessons that can be learned about becoming a great leader, most exist inherently in the bellies of those who lead.

  

  Simon Sinek