Simon Sinek Quotes

The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time.

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• It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Up
  • Done
  • Father

• Some kids go walking in the mountains, but I just went to the cinema. So when I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, even though this wasn't normal for Arab kids or anyone in the town, they were sort of expecting it and were very supportive.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Walking

• Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • People
  • Great
  • Amazing

• Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Earth
  • Promise
  • Hell

• I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all.

  

  Vernon A. Walters
  • Wonder
  • Worry
  • Uncertainty

• Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Beginning
  • Successful

• I never thought about being famous.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Famous

• My mother and father are very involved with music. It's completely part of their soul. They have an incredible record collection, all vinyl, of some of the best artists, in my eyes, that you can come across.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Music
  • Mother
  • Father

• We are fully aware that, in a world at war, each set of belligerents is over ready to regard those who are not with them as against them; but the course we have followed is a just course.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • World
  • War
  • Ready

• I'm basically for the whole year just traveling with three suitcases.

  

  Paige Davis
  • Year
  • Just
  • Three

• The final frontier of the digital technology is integrating into your own brain.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Technology
  • Brain
  • Digital

• Love, safety, belongingness and respect from other people are almost panaceas for the situational disturbances and even for some of the mild character disturbances.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • People
  • Character
  • Respect

• I don't like to play above or below people's heads. Basically, I just like to get up in front of a crowd and rip it up.

  

  Angus Young
  • People
  • Up
  • Rip

• I won't ever get on stage at a comedy club when people know about it.

  

  John Mayer
  • People
  • Comedy

• When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

  

  James Whitcomb Riley
  • Bird

• The pact we have with Japan is interesting. Because if somebody attacks us, Japan does not have to help. If somebody attacks Japan, we have to help Japan.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Help
  • Interesting

• Khan let Polo be his eyes and ears. He was the first one to build a bridge between East and West.

  

  Benedict Wong
  • Eyes
  • Bridge

• I worked at Barney's selling clothes to lonely, rich white women. Every time I would look down on myself - hating my job, hating my life - I would think, 'It's a character study. Study these people, and you'll have your SNL audition ready in, like, five minutes.'

  

  Brandon Uranowitz
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them.

  

  Audrey Tautou
  • Law
  • Picture

• Any one who has stood upon a lofty summit and gazed over an inchoate tangle of deep canyons and cragged mountains, of sunlit lakelets and black expanses of forest, has become aware of a certain giddy sensation that there are no distances, no measures, simply unrelated matter rising and falling without any analogy to the banal geometry of breadth, thickness, and height.

  

  Bob Marshall
  • Black
  • Fall
  • Distance

• I think I have got a very good sense of humour; other people don't, but I do. I also laugh at my own jokes.

  

  Jennifer Johnston
  • People
  • Good

• Making money from money is like aerobatics.

  

  Alisher Usmanov
  • Money

• Silver and ermine and red faces full of port wine.

  

  John Betjeman
  • Red
  • Wine

• The big picture doesn't just come from distance; it also comes from time.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Picture
  • Distance