Simon Sinek Quotes

The creatives are rarely professional and the professionals are rarely creative.

Simon Sinek

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• He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Kind
  • Learn
  • Be kind

• The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Business
  • Strong
  • Relationship

• I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Real
  • Love
  • Connection

• Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Character

• Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Dream

• I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Everyone
  • Terrorism
  • Hamas

• At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • May
  • Purpose

• Oh yah, I'm definitely an old rocker.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Old
  • Rocker
  • Oh

• A lot of people are angry about the democratic abuses that have been committed by the Spanish government.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • People
  • Government
  • Angry

• The principles governing Western democracies, of which Israel rightly considers itself a part, are based on the assurance that everyone has a vote, but also that the minority needs to yield to the wishes of the majority.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Vote
  • Wishes
  • Minority

• I'm not the biggest Miley Cyrus fan. I'm not the risque type.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Fan
  • Type
  • Biggest

• You are not a problem that needs solving.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • You
  • Problem
  • Needs

• The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Fame
  • Prison
  • Tongue

• It's certainly not a shock to find that the industry has no imagination. I think people don't know what it is I do. Because half the time you're talking to people who are in their 20s, and I've been doing this for over 25 years.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Time
  • Imagination

• Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Arts

• The business side of real estate investing is fraught with risk. Unlike purchasing mutual funds or savings bonds, with real estate, you can lose money; this is one of the reasons that seasoned real estate investors caution neophytes never to get too emotional about a property and always be willing to walk away.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Real
  • Money
  • Business

• I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Boat
  • Take
  • Champagne

• All the earth is seamed with roads, and all the sea is furrowed with the tracks of ships, and over all the roads and all the waters a continuous stream of people passes up and down - traveling, as they say, for their pleasure. What is it, I wonder, that they go out to see?

  

  Gertrude Bell
  • People
  • Wonder
  • Travel

• I want to direct one day. I want to write my own thing and really be behind the scenes because you have more creative control.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Control
  • Day
  • Creative

• I've gotten to a place where I still love to play and sing, but I don't have any ego agenda left, outside of just wanting to stay in a creative place and play music. I much prefer to sing for somebody else, and to somebody else.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Play
  • Creative
  • Ego

• I think the people who probably have it the best are the people on cable like on 'Entourage', 'the Sopranos', etc. who have 13 episodes per season and breaks to do films and theatre. I think that's the most ideal life.

  

  T. J. Thyne
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• All of the younger actors keep coming up to me and asking me where all of the land mines are because they know I've stepped on them all.

  

  Burt Reynolds
  • Younger actors

• The creatives are rarely professional and the professionals are rarely creative.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Creative