Simon Sinek Quotes
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.
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I'm a total Disney freak. I want to live in Disney World.
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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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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
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I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that.
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People who are constantly looking for the opportunity to do something new are also people who are not going to be helped by having job titles - job titles create expectations of specialization and focus which don't map really well to creating the best possible experience for your customers.
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I cannot believe that in all the years that there have been female stand-ups, there has never been a show just for them.
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The Soviet Union's termination, which brought to an end the bipolar world, ushered in an era of U.S. hegemony. Hegemony, however, should not be confused with omnipotence. Hegemony is not omnipotence but is certainly preponderance.
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My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.
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Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them.
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A few of Ellison's short stories from the 1940s and 1950s were widely anthologized over the years. After a while, it became generally known that he was at work on another novel. Though he remained aware ever afterward of the authority 'Invisible Man' gave to him, no second novel followed his brilliant debut in 1952.
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Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne says, 'Easy reading is damn hard writing.' I try to pull the language into such a sharpness that it jumps off the page. It must look easy, but it takes me forever to get it to look so easy.
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Progress and innovation happen when you set unrealistic goals.
