Simon Sinek Quotes
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'
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Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
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Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
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I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.
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I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.
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The Indonesian brands aren't interested in sports people, only movie stars, because they can get more exposure in the media.
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
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There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.
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The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
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The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.
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When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.
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I have done a lot of work internally to find out who I am, what voice Eamonn Walker has and how he wants to put it out there.
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I love food: biscuits and gravy, cheese grits, spaghetti and meatballs, chicken-fried steak with white gravy... but my favorite dish is my wife's beanie weenie cornbread casserole. It's so good. It sounds stupid, but if you eat it, it's heaven. Of course, it's only something you can eat if you've got a lot of money.
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It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.
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I'm Japanese, but restaurants in my hometown served the most sanitized versions of California rolls. I grew up eating a lot of Japanese food at home that my parents or grandparents made.
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If the goal is to build companies that maximize long-term equity value, then optimizing corporate performance in a way that Wall Street appreciates is obviously critical to that goal.
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But most of all, the train that kept rollin' all night long of rock n' roll you cannot kill. It will live forever.
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I was an apprentice television engineer when I decided to pack it up and go full-time, much to my father's disgust. But I'm still interested and I like messing about with TV. I can't deny it ... TV engineering was the job I'd wanted at the time, and I got what I wanted. But in the long-term it would have been second best to being a musician.
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Focus on long term success but be willing to make short term adjustments to get there
