Simon Sinek Quotes

Our struggles are the short term lessons we learn to achieve long term success.

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• I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Enjoy
  • Look
  • Limit

• I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • May
  • Poetry

• If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Walking
  • Dead
  • Benefit

• I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Together
  • Church
  • Myself

• Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fun

• Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Bad
  • Feel
  • Nobody

• I am all in favor of growing the American economy and engaging in trade with the world, but not at the expense of American workers. The North American Free Trade Agreement is a perfect example of this. Ask the textile workers of North Carolina how NAFTA worked out for them - if you can find any.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • American
  • Perfect
  • Economy

• I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

• I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • People
  • Me
  • Ideas

• There have been many gay knights in the past - like Sir Noel Coward or Sir John Gielgud.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Past
  • Like
  • Gay

• We just compare our lifestyle to movies so you can relate to them. When I say, 'I bought a carpet from Aladdin so I could finesse and do magic,' that means I had to get me a new whip or I had to get me something in disguise to work my magic, to finesse, to get out of here.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Work
  • Me
  • Magic

• The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Attention
  • Should
  • Hold

• I kind of see myself as a cartoon that's on its way to becoming a real person that has to find that special amulet or mushroom to get to that next realm or level. I don't feel like anything is that tangible. It freaks me out, why I feel unhappy or conflicted and why that can change on a dime.

  

  Carly Pope
  • Change
  • Person
  • Feel

• The Lord, marks the fall of the smallest sparrow. He knows how so many in authority treat the infirm and the aged. Look at the Napoleons, Caesars and the like. Rather than casting themselves in God's image they made Gods of themselves. and were destroyed. ( Edgar Cayce On the Millennium Chapter One - The great new planet earth. )

  

  Edgar Cayce
  • Great
  • God
  • Earth

• I don't think that at the time, or now, come to think of it, I gave a damn. Foolishly, I wanted truth and idealism, but there was none to be had.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Time
  • Truth

• Part of our evolutionary heritage is the ability to adapt - species that survive, adapt. Humans adapt by altering their priorities to match evolving values.

  

  Warren Farrell

• What I have learned, above all, is to keep marching forward because the best news is that since chance does play a role, one important factor in success is under our control: the number of at bats, the number of chances taken, the number of opportunities seized.

  

  Leonard Mlodinow
  • Important
  • Success
  • Control

• Shun those studies in which the work that results dies with the worker.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Work

• To be English and long secretly for Prince Philip's heyday is, at least partly, to be wistful for a fairer, more meritocratic land where jobs were for life and social mobility was real.

  

  James Hawes
  • Life
  • Long
  • Real

• In the animal world, there are all kinds of behaviors that are binary: for example, to flee or to fight. In any evolutionary environment, knowing your opponent's decision would not be advantageous for long because your opponent would evolve the same recognition mechanism to also know you.

  

  Chris Adami
  • World
  • Long
  • Decision

• A comic book publisher says he's trying to increase voter turnout in the presidential election by publishing comic books about John McCain and Barack Obama. Yeah, the publisher said that the election comic books are targeted at first-time voters and long-time virgins.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Long
  • Trying

• Well, if our author in the wife offendsHe has a husband that will make amends;He draws him gentle, tender, and forgiving,And sure such kind good creatures may be living.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Good
  • May
  • Wife

• The U.K. crowds always have a lot of energy, and I've done some milestone shows there that I'm very proud of.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Done
  • Energy
  • Proud

• Our struggles are the short term lessons we learn to achieve long term success.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Long
  • Struggle
  • Achieve