Simon Sinek Quotes

Most people ignore opportunities because they see only danger. Entrepreneurs ignore danger because they see only opportunities.

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• Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Life
  • Career
  • Medicine

• The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • High
  • Quality
  • Ability

• Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Music
  • Why
  • Know

• In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Lost
  • Government
  • Problem

• Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a warehouse somewhere - it's theft.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • You
  • Care
  • Internet

• It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Great
  • American
  • Strength

• Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.

  

  Adam Driver
  • School
  • Myself
  • Acting

• I'm not a trained singer at all. I've auditioned on occasion for proper musical theatre-type stuff, but I can't read music, and I wasn't particularly good at it.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Good
  • Music
  • Theatre

• I've evolved, but I'm the same dude, I'm just in a different place. We all change, we all grow. I shouldn't be in the same place that I was 30 years ago; I should be more intelligent, you know.

  

  Ice T
  • Different
  • Change
  • Same

• The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Country
  • Home
  • Plants

• The idea of fighting your new girlfriend's ex-lovers, 'Street Fighter' style, is the ultimate geek wish-fulfilment.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Wish
  • Style
  • Fighting

• I have three dads: my biological father, God and Bob Dylan.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • God
  • Father

• I guess I'll retire someday if I live that long.

  

  Bobby Bowden
  • Long
  • Live

• There is no good father who would want to resemble our Heavenly Father.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • Good
  • Father

• At a time of economic recession, the need for Medicaid and other safety net services is even greater. And we don't want to raise taxes on people who are having a tough time paying their bills.

  

  James Douglas
  • People
  • Time
  • Safety

• One of my best friends while shooting 'Roots' was Vic Morrow, the guy that whips Kunta.

  

  Louis Gossett, Jr.
  • Friends
  • Guy

• I felt like I was flying without a net. But once I realized that the audience was my partner, I was flying a jet, because the people would allow me to develop the character on stage.

  

  Loretta Swit
  • People
  • Character
  • Flying

• I want you to begin keeping a calendar of who you see and when: the first day each year you see buttercups, the first day frogs start singing, the last day you see robins in the fall, the first day for grasshoppers. In short, I want you to pay attention.

  

  Derrick Jensen
  • Attention
  • Fall
  • Singing

• Going out and volunteering sounds simple, but many people don't volunteer because they don't know where to start.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • People
  • Simple
  • Volunteer

• If you're willing to tell somebody that you love them, are you also willing to say you're sorry? You need to, even when you think you're in the right.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Sorry

• I would, in a sense, certainly assist the Amir of Afghanistan if he waged war against the British Government. That is to say, I would openly tell my countrymen that it would be a crime to help a government which had lost the confidence of the nation to remain in power.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Power
  • War
  • Help

• Most people ignore opportunities because they see only danger. Entrepreneurs ignore danger because they see only opportunities.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • People
  • Opportunity
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