Simon Sinek Quotes
Simple ideas are easier to understand. Ideas that are easier to understand are repeated. Ideas that are repeated change the world.
Quotes to Explore
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.
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I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.
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Money scares me, and it always has done. I've got a childish concept of money, and I like to keep it that way in the sense that I don't like to think about it.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
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I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.
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There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.
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New York is such a diverse place in and of itself, it would be ridiculous to see it otherwise.
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But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.
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Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can succeed without the help of a record label. The role of the record label is still required, it's still necessary.
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My parents never told me to get a real job. They always said, 'Go for it! If this is what you want to do, work hard.' They were always very supportive.
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My ideas for the next collection always happen a couple of months before the show. I have learned to shut up and not bother my assistants with it.
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Man is an essentially superstitious and fearful animal. Take away the herd's Christian gods and saints and they will without failing come to worship...something else.
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I had been taught that if I cried, to be quiet about it, so whereas I never howled, the least thing made me cry both at school and at home. Crying tends to separate a child from other children, for even children dislike a cry baby, and I had no friends in the world.
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Sometimes simple accessories are all you need when your dress speaks for itself.
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So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet.
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Experiments with animals have long been handicapped by our anthropocentric attitude: We often test them in ways that work fine with humans but not so well with other species.
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Simple ideas are easier to understand. Ideas that are easier to understand are repeated. Ideas that are repeated change the world.
