Simon Sinek Quotes
Good leadership is always human. It takes time and energy. It is hard work. Which is why good leadership is so special when we find it.
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Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
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I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.
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Conflict is always the right thing to do when it matters.
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If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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Live life to the full, and become more curious every day. The more you find out about life, the richer your music-making will be.
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Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a romantic suspense. I have always put tremendous effort into making each book a page turner: The harder it is for the reader to put it down, the better I've done my job.
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Nepal is a beautiful country with a lot of holy places. I also like the country because it's close to the Himalayas. According to Hindu mythology, that's the abode of Lord Shiva.
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Not a great deal is known about the factors in childhood that doubtless underlie a person's choice of career - I'm talking now about a career to which one is passionately committed, in contradistinction to a career chosen merely as a means of earning a living.
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I want to protect my life. I don't want my life to become a reality show.
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It's a terrible poison, writing.
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In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are a collaboration. They're only as good as the compromise made between the artists involved.
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
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Imagine how different those classrooms could be if hundreds of Nigeria's most talented recent graduates and professionals channeled their energy not only into the country's banks, but into making education in the country a force for transformation.
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Our age gives the more receptive among the young such a sense of social responsibility that one is inclined at times to fear that social interests may encroach upon individual development, that a knowledge of all the ills affecting the community may act as too powerful a damper on the joys of youth.
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It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world, one must have the shoulders of Hercules.
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Good leadership is always human. It takes time and energy. It is hard work. Which is why good leadership is so special when we find it.
