Simon Sinek Quotes

There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.

Simon Sinek

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• I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.

  

  Walter Martin
  • Context
  • Biblical
  • Prophet

• If I get in a dark spot, I'll listen to some Adele and cry about it.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Dark
  • Listen
  • Cry

• Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Bad
  • Honor
  • Dangerous

• It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Amazing
  • Feel
  • Retirement

• I don't believe in miracles.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Believe
  • Miracles

• I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Up
  • Important
  • Change

• I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Life
  • Love
  • Love Life

• It makes sense to have cameras in places where terrorism and crime are of particular concern - such as in Times Square or near major bridges and tunnels. It would be more troubling to learn, however, that the government has focused cameras on the front doors of our homes just to keep track of our comings and goings.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Government
  • Learn
  • Doors

• I would watch anything with Meryl Streep in it.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Anything
  • Watch
  • Would

• When people are like, 'What do you think of this vampire craze?' - well, I don't really feel like it ever ended, personally, 'cause I've always been into them, like 'Underworld.'

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Think
  • You

• The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • World
  • Future
  • Leadership

• I like the Dodgers because my dad does - wait, no, not the Dodgers. Strike me down! The Yankees. I like the Yankees.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Down

• Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • School
  • Hate

• Writing a memoir is such a private, personal experience that it's intimidating to think of adapting it for television.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Think

• You'll hear 'Hippie,' or, 'Get a haircut.' I like it. I think it's funny because they think we've never heard that before. So, like, good one.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Good
  • Think
  • Funny

• We live in a world of virtual goods where none of us own the 0s and 1s. What are you going to do?

  

  Warren Spector
  • World
  • Live
  • You

• The U.N. did not create Israel. The Jewish state came into being because the tiny Jewish community in what was mandatory Palestine rebelled against foreign imperialist rule. We did not conquer a foreign land.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Community
  • Israel
  • Conquer

• I have always had great respect for former president Mandela. The personal sacrifices he made in order to achieve what was right for the people of South Africa is something I carry with me every day.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • People
  • Great
  • Respect

• The definition of the problem, rather than its solution, will be the scarce resource in the future.

  

  Esther Dyson
  • Problem
  • Solution
  • Definition

• The personal power that comes from principle-centered living is the power of a self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors, and actions of others or by many of the circumstances and environmental influences that limit other people.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • People
  • Action
  • Attitude

• My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • College

• When I started using the extreme short depth of field and single point of focus, I was trying to replicate my changing eyesight. We have binocular vision; one eye perceives space from the other. I don't experience a scene visually at F32. It's more like F1.4.

  

  Keith Carter
  • Focus
  • Vision
  • Photography

• Any Michael Jackson song will make any dancer go nuts.

  

  Harry Shum, Jr.
  • Dancer
  • Nuts
  • Michael Jackson song

• There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Influence
  • Behavior
  • Inspire