Simon Sinek Quotes

Reality will always prevail so why help it? Be an idealist and see what happens.

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• Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

  

  Sally Ride
  • American
  • Space
  • Responsibility

• Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • War
  • America

• When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Work
  • Character
  • Fun

• My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Life
  • Suffering
  • Difficult

• It Nobel Peace Prize is a great recognition and honour for millions of children in the world. I hope many more people will join the fight against child slavery. This isn't just about India. It's a global phenomenon. We'll work for this globally. I've been working in 147 countries and my responsibility is with all the world's children.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Technology
  • Present
  • Path

• I have no TV, thank God. I haven't heard anything about Tom Cruise, except that he had a baby, I think.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • God
  • Baby

• Bigger spreads mean bigger gaps between what buyers pay and sellers receive. For example, a spread of 10 cents a share means that the buyer pays $100 more for 1,000 shares than the seller receives.

  

  Alex Berenson

• Since the early Nineties it's been very fashionable to say, 'It's all about the music.'

  

  Chris Robinson The Black Crowes
  • Music

• I think more about the family now. That's an interesting progression for me.

  

  Henry John Deutschendorf Jr.
  • Family
  • Interesting

• I'd be perfectly happy with a mathematically precise description of how time began. I see science and religion as being two completely different things. I don't see science as relevant to the question of whether or not there's a God.

  

  Neil Turok
  • Time
  • God
  • Different

• The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

  

  Charles Olson

• Physical books are still my favorite, but I own an e-book reader. They're convenient for travel.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Book
  • Travel

• Almost half our representatives in Washington apparently know more about science than our scientists. Or they pretend to, because big corporations give them a lot of money to make sure they can keep doing the destructive things that they do.

  

  Jimmy Kimmel
  • Money
  • Science

• I do not believe, even remotely, that you have to have a partner in your life in order to be whole, in order to be complete, in order to be fulfilled. You just don't have to.

  

  Phil McGraw
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Partner

• He let out a yell of joy. They danced round the room. Pressure of population was such that reproduction had to be strict, controlled. Childbirth required government permission. For this moment, they had waited four years. Incoherently they cried their delight.

  

  Brian Aldiss
  • Joy

• A soldier's death, he thought, was a happy one, because a man, even in the throes of awful pain, would die in the best company of the world.

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • World
  • Happy
  • Death

• The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is.

  

  Dennis Gabor
  • Future
  • Society

• It isn't just the physical presence of the father that matters- it's his engagement and involvement. An emotionally remote or rejecting or actively punitive father leads to girls' feeling pretty apprehensive around men.

  

  Victoria Secunda
  • Men
  • Father
  • Pretty

• It seems to be unfathomable to people that I just happen to be 49 and look good. I am totally capable of accepting myself.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • People
  • Looks
  • Happens

• Casey Affleck is a really good friend of mine. I know Casey a lot better than I know Ben, even though Ben and I have worked together a lot.

  

  Liv Tyler
  • Good
  • Together
  • Friend

• The idea of "making art for art's sake" makes no sense for me. Each area of my life, all the roles I play, influences the others.

  

  Ben Sollee
  • Art
  • My Life
  • Role

• Sometimes you also work with people who don't explain or express to you what they're actually looking for from the shot but you haven't got that problem with this because whatever you're going to do, whether it's good or bad, will get picked up. So, in that way I guess it's pure cinema.

  

  Ray Winstone
  • People
  • Problem
  • Sometimes

• Reality will always prevail so why help it? Be an idealist and see what happens.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Reality
  • Helping
  • Happens