Simon Sinek Quotes
Self confidence is the ability to exercise restraint in the face of disrespect and still show respect in response.
Quotes to Explore
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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
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I have visited people whose health has been endangered by tar sands oil. I have watched neighbors struggle to recover from Superstorm Sandy. I have seen solar panels and wind turbines become an increasingly familiar part of the landscape.
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It's time to re-think charity. It's time to give charity the big-league freedoms we really give to business. The fight for these freedoms must be our new cause, because without them, all of our causes are ultimately lost.
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I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.
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I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.
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History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of that history took for granted that his readers would know.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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If ballots won't work, bullets will.
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Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.
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As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.
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It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
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In the matrimonial life of the Jewish male every day is Yom Kippur.
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It's important to immerse myself in one thing at a time to do it well, but I could never do one thing only. I will always be a poet and a singer, because I'm interested in bending genres and pushing boundaries of what is considered a poem, what is considered a song.
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When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
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People think I'm girlish and flippant, but I was an honours student. I was voted Girl Most Likely To Succeed at North Mesquite High in Texas. My best subject was science. I won a scholarship.
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I am very lucky because I am realizing my childhood dreams, and after presenting my shows it's like a party.
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Don't make anybody a homemade gift. Unless you're really good, or it's going to be really practical. If it's a little thing you think is cute 'cause you made it, just forget it.
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It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.
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No American has carried greater fame out of the White House than this silent man who leaves it today.
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Speaking from experience, because I have three daughters, I think it's always important to give your daughter the confidence that she needs so that she won't look elsewhere for approval and feeling love and acceptance.
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When I started out as an activist, the issues were much clearer. There's advantage to the new media, but on the other hand, you miss the ability to frame an issue that you had when there were just three TV networks: CBS, NBC, and ABC. So the whole world could see the same police dogs. The same Bull Connor and his white tank. Now you've got narrow-casting. The media is all fragmented. It's so hard to get people to focus in a sustained way.
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It was a strange life, I suppose, but it was the only one I’ve ever known. What is a normal childhood anyway?
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Self confidence is the ability to exercise restraint in the face of disrespect and still show respect in response.
