Simon Sinek Quotes
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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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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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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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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Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.
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Unlike fuel-economy standards, the most common method of reducing demand for oil over the past thirty years, a gas tax doesn't tell people what kind of car to drive. It simply raises the price of gasoline and lets people adjust their behavior accordingly.
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For directors and producers, you're not going to get competent performers on your set if they didn't start at a young age and understand professionalism.
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I have had demanding jobs since I was 18 years old. I have had two sick days in all my working life.
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Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.
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I have been waiting to win a world championship since 1985. I've had three cracks at a world title - in karting, I finished third at Le Mans; that hurt because it was very close, but then in Formula One there wasn't really an opportunity to finally crack it, so it's third time lucky.
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People think that coaches are always right, but it's difficult to teach a runner how to run, because every runner is different. You have to have an understanding of how to assist what that runner has, so they know how to assist what you have without taking away your special ability, because you're not like anybody else.
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The thing about innovation in financial markets is they're always building on what has come before. It's a natural process.
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Change is certain. Progress is not.
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The image is one thing and the human being is another...it's very hard to live up to an image.
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Progress and innovation happen when you set unrealistic goals.
