Simon Sinek Quotes
Life changes for the better when we realize that we don't have to know everything and we don't have to pretend we do.
Quotes to Explore
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.
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I do believe the potential for ConnectU was as big as Facebook's, absolutely.
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When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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I don't marry bandmates just to go marrying bandmates.
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It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir.
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I think whoever runs next time has to have a very clear idea of where he or she wants to take America and has to run on those ideas, because the election cannot be about personalities, participants sniping, all of the irrelevant stuff the day after the election sort of dissipates, and you wake up and say, okay, now what am I going to do?
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Stupidity exceeds and undercuts materiality, runs loose, wins a few rounds, recedes, gets carried home in a clutch of denial-and returns. Essentially linked to the inexhaustible, stupidity is also that which fatigues knowledge and wears down history.
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Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things.
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The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.
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Life changes for the better when we realize that we don't have to know everything and we don't have to pretend we do.
