Simon Sinek Quotes
Listening is not understanding the words of the question asked, listening is understanding why the question was asked in the first place.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I'd just think they're... sensible.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.
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No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.
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When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
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I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.
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I've always just wanted people to look at me.
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I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then.
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There is one alternative to dark matter, and that is the assumption that Newton's laws don't hold over distances as great as galaxies. But we know that Newton's laws hold over a very large domain. And virtually one hundred percent of the physics and astronomy community believes that there is matter in the universe that does not radiate.
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To my friends pictured within.
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Right knows no boundaries and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.
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With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose.
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Vanilla is anti-inflammatory and reduces free radicals.
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Your child's not looking at you and going, 'Mmm, I love a clavicle. Let me nestle into that.'
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You never read Spider-Man? Accepting your true identity means understanding that you are a stranger to this world. A freak, ostracized by the very people you want to help.
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Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.
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I think it's probably true that creative people are touched by melancholy more than the average person, and to the extent that delving into that shadow world produces good work, I'm all for it. But I think you have to be able to step back from the work, and say, "Look how miserable I felt. Look how beautifully I wrote about it. Now I'm going to get an iced coffee and chat with a friend." Writing should be a way out of despair.
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Virtual reality is inevitably going to become mainstream - it's only a question of how good it needs to be before the mainstream is willing to use it.
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Listening is not understanding the words of the question asked, listening is understanding why the question was asked in the first place.
