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

• 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

• 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

• Thierry Henry is Thierry Henry. I still have everything to prove. By continuing to work, I will try to reach his level, but I am still very far off.

  

  Anthony Martial
  • Work

• For some reason, juggling things makes everything work better. That's just how we operate. It just makes the other project more of something to look forward to. I think the more you keep things going, the more it helps the other project.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Work

• The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • God
  • Men
  • Dream

• From a distance, at a time of urbanization and connectivity, rodeo and ranching may seem anachronistic notions - quaint and sepia-toned from an America that no longer exists.

  

  John Branch
  • Time
  • May
  • America

• As you put your sights on your goals — no matter how great and compelling they are — as you look into the distance, don’t forget what is right in front of you today. No matter how great your dreams, no matter how great your destiny, the biggest thing you can do in any day is a small act of kindness.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Great
  • Today
  • Small

• Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• God creates each soul differently, so that when all the mud is finally cleared away, His light will shine through it in a beautiful, colorful, totally new pattern.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • God
  • Soul
  • Beautiful

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

  

  Simon Sinek
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