Simon Sinek Quotes
Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.
Quotes to Explore
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At those times I got into... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow.
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I've made a dozen films in the English language. But then, for love, for my family and friends, I returned to Europe... I annoyingly - looking back - turned down films like 007, 'For Your Eyes Only,' written specially for me.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.
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The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure - and it doesn't see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.
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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
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I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.
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I love 'Titanic' and the idea that you're kind of rooting for Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet to survive despite the fact that you know that they're not going to.
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I love playing to people and seeing them react.
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There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me – those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.
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As a kid, I used to love to play baseball and be in Little League and sleep outside with my friends and do all those kind of things.
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I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that's what was always special for me about music: it made me feel something.
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I pay a lot of attention to box office because I understand it. TV ratings? I don't know how to interpret them, since I'm new to TV, so I'm just going to wait for somebody to tell me.
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No free country will ever again have anything like the 90 percent tax rates that we had in this country. Past a certain point, high marginal tax rates are, indeed, terribly destructive.
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If I feel insecure, then I am in the wrong profession. I have to trust my director and the material he has given me.
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I have no interest in making music that's built for an antique shop.
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A leader is admired, a boss is feared.
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Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience.
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Virtually all of Darfur's six million residents are Muslim, and, because of decades of intermarriage, almost everyone has dark skin and African features.
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For a comedian to kind of catch onto something right as something's catching on in our culture, a lot of it is luck, and you hope the joke is funny.
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Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.
