Simon Sinek Quotes

We must all try to empathize before we criticize. Ask someone what's wrong before telling them they are wrong.

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• I'm only 26 - I don't know anything about life yet. Life is like a puzzle and my pieces are spread all over the world.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Life
  • World
  • Puzzle

• Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Life
  • American
  • Hope

• There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Me
  • Nobody
  • Double

• I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.

  

  Nanci Griffith
  • Me
  • Story
  • View

• Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.

  

  Dan Gertler
  • Want
  • Dreams
  • Invest

• I'm trying to work, be diverse and multi-talented.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Diverse

• In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • World
  • West
  • Ruled

• Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • High
  • Way
  • Bar

• From an operational perspective, exports challenge companies to design, develop, manufacture and supply products to discerning customers in global markets. This, in turn, motivates companies to scale up the value chain, which results in higher realisations.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Up
  • Value
  • Challenge

• I have Native American blood. I have African blood. I have European blood.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • American
  • Blood
  • Native

• I had a teacher in college who drastically changed the course of my life by telling me that he believed in me as an actor. I never received that support before, and it inspired to me to such a degree that I never looked back. He taught me that it's okay to be crappy; it's okay to fight; it's okay to go to any length.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Life
  • Support
  • College

• I think the secret is really observation. Well, if you observe what's going on and try to figure out how people are thinking, I think you can always write something that people will understand.

  

  Sam Cooke
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Observation

• It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Hope
  • Without
  • Only

• People often ask us if we had direct influences. Honestly, just a lot of different music - not necessarily individual people. We listen to anything from Bob Dylan to Massive Attack to Aerosmith to En Vogue. We very much enjoy all that music.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• What sort of arrogance did she have, even to imagine reaching back into the past and making changes? Who am I, she thought, if I dare to answer prayers intended for the gods?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • She
  • Past

• We have forgotten that before we began calling this date rape and date fraud, we called it exciting.

  

  Warren Farrell

• You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.

  

  Akio Morita
  • People
  • Work
  • Understanding

• I think I'm inspired mostly by other artists that aren't actors, like writers or singers or artists, for being so brave.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Inspired
  • Brave

• You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • God
  • Gods
  • Copy

• Much of the time I’ve spent trying to impress people has been a waste. The reality is people are impressed with all kinds of things: intelligence, power, money, charm, talent, and so on. But the ones we tend to stay in love with are, in the long run, the ones who do a decent job loving us back.

  

  Donald Miller
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I've decided life is too fragile to finish a book I dislike just because it cost $16.95 and everyone else loved it. Or eat a fried egg with a broken yolk (which I hate) when the dog would leap over the St. Louis Arch for it.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Book
  • Hate
  • Dog

• When you're a kid, and you're a superhero lover, the holy trinity is Batman, Superman and Spider-Man, so to be able to take any of those and play with it is a huge joy.

  

  Alex Kurtzman
  • Joy
  • Superhero
  • Superman

• We must all try to empathize before we criticize. Ask someone what's wrong before telling them they are wrong.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Trying
  • Asks
  • Criticize