Simon Sinek Quotes

Walt Disney had a very clear sense of why. He was about happiness. Remember when Disney was founded, it was during war. People said that life sucked. And he said, "No." He was an eternal optimist who said: "Life is beautiful. It's about giving. It's about family." Look what happened. His cause grew and people committed themselves to helping him grow the Disney why and it was hugely successful.

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• People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Culture
  • Without

• I'm really excited about the prospect of deepening what is already a really strong relationship that I have with the people of Broward.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Strong
  • Relationship

• When you say, 'I spent my summers at the Jersey Shore,' people always say, 'Oh, really?' They think of the TV show. So I just say, 'A cute little harbor town in New Jersey.'

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • New
  • Cute

• People only see what they are prepared to see.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • People
  • See
  • Only

• I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Fear
  • Me

• People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • People
  • Reality
  • Serious

• The Sino-American competition involves two significant realities that distinguish it from the Cold War: neither party is excessively ideological in its orientation; and both parties recognize that they really need mutual accommodation.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • American
  • War
  • Party

• Clothes are a kind of uniform. A nun's habit, a surgeon's scrubs, a cop's uniform. People often say that when they put on a certain uniform, they actually think of themselves differently.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • Think
  • Habit

• People are going to say what they want to say.

  

  Zoe Cassavetes
  • People
  • Want
  • Say

• The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • inspirational

• When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.

  

  Sade Adu
  • People
  • Music
  • Kind

• With Spotify, I think people are discovering a lot of artists they might not discover otherwise.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Think
  • Discover

• A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Beautiful
  • Car
  • Green

• Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands soon acquire skills, excellent craftsmanship which will be the most important measure of how well we can industrialize.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • People
  • Important
  • Art

• Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • People
  • Government
  • Responsibility

• I love Lauryn Hill, Tracy Chapman, Fiona Apple. People like that. People you can really connect to on the most basic human level.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Like
  • Level

• Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Beautiful
  • Film

• Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. That's half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • People
  • Life
  • Country

• I wanted to be a pro volleyball player, and I fell in love with performance and audience response. The pressure of performing and doing something that I love doing in front of people who were grateful to see it. That relationship sort of worked out to be acting and theatre.

  

  Dan Payne
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Acting

• There are no friends at cards or world politics.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • World
  • Friends
  • Politics

• I think the word 'woke' is now over. The first time I heard my mature, white dad use that term, I was like 'OK, this is done.'

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • Time
  • Done
  • Dad

• If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Alone
  • Write
  • Read

• Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty.

  

  Jefferson Davis
  • Humble

• Walt Disney had a very clear sense of why. He was about happiness. Remember when Disney was founded, it was during war. People said that life sucked. And he said, "No." He was an eternal optimist who said: "Life is beautiful. It's about giving. It's about family." Look what happened. His cause grew and people committed themselves to helping him grow the Disney why and it was hugely successful.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • People
  • Remember
  • War