Simon Sinek Quotes

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

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• Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • God
  • Artist
  • Just

• 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
  • Problem
  • Government

• 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

• Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Look
  • Economics
  • Alternative

• Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Experience
  • Memories
  • More

• 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
  • Intelligent

• 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 know most players do, but I always keep both eyes opened. I still do it. I see two shafts, the real one and the transparent one. I look for what's on the inside edge of the transparent one.

  

  Ben Crenshaw
  • Real
  • Eyes

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

  

  Bobby Bowden
  • Long
  • Live

• I remember I once went to a nutritionist who said I come from good Russian-Jewish peasant stock, which means I can hold a potato in my body for a week, if need be.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Stock

• In 1975, I quit my tenure, and we moved from Ann Arbor to New Hampshire. It was daunting to pay for groceries and the mortgage by freelance writing - but it worked, and I loved doing it.

  

  Donald Hall
  • Writing

• That which concerns the mystery of the King's power is not lawful to be disputed; for that is to wade into the weakness of Princes, and to take away the mystical reverence that belongs unto them that sit in the throne of God.

  

  King James I
  • God
  • Power
  • King

• A lot of people think I came out of nowhere. When you start as a songwriter, nobody knows who you are. I met the guy who wrote 'Yeah' by Usher, which was a huge smash, and nobody knew who he was.

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • People
  • Guy
  • Nowhere

• My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

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

  

  Simon Sinek
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Danger