Simon Sinek Quotes

There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.

Simon Sinek

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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.

  

  Jack Dee
  • People
  • Attitude
  • Same

• All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Law
  • Action
  • Fast

• No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Always

• In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Death
  • Situation
  • Danger

• I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Rock
  • Jesus
  • Roll

• I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Thought
  • Scared
  • Floating

• Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • See
  • Everything
  • Got

• I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• I need to do more on stage. I've got to get my fix!

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Need
  • Stage
  • Fix

• I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Think
  • U.S.
  • Administration

• Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Wisdom
  • Courage
  • Fruit

• After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.

  

  Hans Kung
  • World
  • War
  • History

• I grew up in a very small town in Massachusetts, and it goes without saying that there weren't many Nigerian families in that town, and a lot of people couldn't say Uzoamaka.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • People
  • Up
  • Small

• History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh by the unrestrained desires of a free and universal love. Universal me. Universal you.

  

  Aberjhani
  • History
  • Free

• If that was on my road the council would be like 'Get that down, its a deathtrap!'

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Road

• Personally, I'd have a baby just for the epidural.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Baby

• Some of the aspects of my speaking style are inherited and come naturally to me. I didn't take classes, and I didn't do anything to hone my skills.

  

  Bernice King
  • Style

• It wasn't until I left that I realised it's not weird to grow up in certain cities and, by the age of 27 or 28, for all of your friends to still be alive. I can think of a lot of kids that I knew in Chicago who were supposed to grow up but didn't.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Friends

• When I was a young person, when I was in high school, we did a very emotional and wonderful - for us, life-changing - production of 'Godspell.' It really, really was the highlight of my high school time, and it was for everybody else in the cast, too.

  

  Jane Lynch
  • Life
  • Time
  • School

• I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.

  

  Laura San Giacomo
  • Son
  • Speak
  • Walk

• No doubt, humans will do a lot of damage before we ultimately destroy ourselves. But life will continue without humans. New forms of intelligence will emerge long after this human experiment is over.

  

  Zeena Schreck
  • Life
  • Long
  • Doubt

• There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Waiting
  • Listening
  • Speak