Simon Sinek Quotes
Stand for people. Not a product or service or metric or number. If we stand for real, living, breathing people, we will change the world.
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Team members have to hold each other accountable. If there's a meeting, all members have to commit to be present and to help one another; they can't just check out when they feel they're not getting any benefits.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
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I can do whatever I want.
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I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
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If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
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I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hearing a voice', or, 'The characters came to life'. I am filled with loathing for my own characters when I hear that because they do nothing of the sort. Left to their own devices, they do nothing but drink coffee and complain about their lives.
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I want to be a better person in every aspect. I really don't feel I've in anyway fulfilled my potential in every area of my life. But I'm optimistic.
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L.A. is... I always feel sort of abducted when I'm there, like I've stepped onto another planet where everyone looks the same.
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A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
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Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published.
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I want to have a career that evolves as I go on.
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Ev was a careful man, a model of caution. He took pride in not committing to a view until all the facts were in. Which meant, of course, that he was never quite on board. Or in opposition.
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I got real important relationships in my life that are very empowering relationships.
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I've been accused of being old before my time more than once. It's true that I've always felt an affinity for, and been comfortable around, older people. I attribute this to a childhood spent around my grandparents - and even a great-grandparent or two. I wouldn't trade those experiences for anything.
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If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining what it is you want to write about, you discover a level of detail that you wouldn't have noticed otherwise.
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I never thought my face would be on the cover of a Red Bull Six Pack.
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Stand for people. Not a product or service or metric or number. If we stand for real, living, breathing people, we will change the world.
