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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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 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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Right knows no boundaries and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.
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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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Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?
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I really have a love and passion for football. I enjoy basketball, but it's not something I love. You have to let things go that are not for you.
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I have an obsession for quality. I work for my guests, not to obtain Michelin stars.
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We need space to discuss unspoken, uncomfortable dark truths.
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I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.
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We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.
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If a playwright is funny, the English look for a serious message, and if he's serious, they look for a joke.
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Good artists copy, great artists steal.
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When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes.
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Even at ten o’clock in the morning it was going to be full of members of the public. Rich, influential members of the public, many of them foreign, a lot of them with some level of diplomatic immunity. ‘What I’m saying here,’ Seawoll had said, ‘is try to limit the amount of damage you do to none fucking whatsoever.’ I don’t know where I got this reputation for property damage, I really don’t.
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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.
