Simon Sinek Quotes

Some good leaders are rough around the edges and some leaders are difficult. Some have difficult personalities and some are really nice to be around, but those are not the qualifications. The qualifications are their desire to see us achieve more, their desire to push us to be the best we can be. Not for their selfish gain, but because they believe that we have something to offer.

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• Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Theater
  • Musical
  • Dancer

• I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Think
  • Politics
  • Succeed

• I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Family
  • Home
  • Cutting

• You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • People
  • Day
  • Treat

• My father had spent years fighting cancer of the head and neck. He had numerous operations, and he was reduced and reduced and reduced. By the end, he had a growth so big under his eye that it hurt to look at him.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Father
  • Fighting
  • Hurt

• A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.

  

  Ovid
  • Death
  • Man
  • New

• I started rapping because I wanted people to hear what I have to say, I want as many people to hear me as possible, and I do everything in my power to make that pop.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Power
  • Me

• A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

  

  O. Henry
  • Way
  • Air
  • Vote

• 'Johnny Tremain,' Paul Revere's Ride, today's Tea Partiers - you have to tune all that out to get at the real story.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Real
  • Today
  • Tea

• The mighty Mahmud, Allah-breathing Lord That all the misbelieving and black Horde Of Fears and Sorrows that infest the Soul Scatters before him with his whirlwind Sword.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Soul
  • Black

• The world is in an extremely dangerous situation, and serious diseases often require the risk of a dangerous cure - like the Pasteur serum for rabies.

  

  Alan Watts
  • World
  • Serious
  • Risk

• I was in a state of witless shock, as though flames had suddenly enwrapped and paralyzed me so that for a moment I had no mind, no memory.

  

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • Mind

• What I thought we ought to try to do in a book like this is to focus closely on Lincoln, himself, to see what he knew, how he knew it, how he came to make the decisions that he did, and how he implemented them.

  

  David Herbert Donald
  • Book
  • Focus

• I respect my dad, and he's amazing. He's my hero. He's the Beatles, man - or one of them.

  

  James McCartney
  • Respect
  • Dad
  • Amazing

• There is an eternal humanity that crosses through all people, and it's more interesting often when it's about struggle - not people with champagne glasses.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Humanity

• Presidential elections and the voter experience have long been fraught for black people. From racist poll taxes to made-up literacy tests to the egregious rollback of voting rights over the past 50 years, American democracy has, at times, felt like a weird and failed social experiment.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman... it amazes me still.

  

  Jenni Rivera
  • People

• I just find things that work and embellish them.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Work

• I hope I am a psychotherapist's dream. I've spent enough hours in therapy.

  

  Sia LSD
  • Hope
  • Dream

• 1988 Olympic Champion Brian Boitano was famous for doing a Lutz with one arm over his head. And I wanted to build on that.

  

  Adam Rippon
  • Famous
  • Champion

• Like most women, I hate when a guy tries to pick me up by saying, You are the hottest girl I've ever seen. It's totally unrealistic. There are beautiful women everywhere.

  

  Karen McDougal
  • Up
  • Women
  • Guy

• The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world.

  

  Louis Agassiz
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• I'd love to play in, like, a 'Lord of the Rings,' or something like that, or a James Bond or, you know, just something like with action, shooting.

  

  Luke Benward
  • Action

• Some good leaders are rough around the edges and some leaders are difficult. Some have difficult personalities and some are really nice to be around, but those are not the qualifications. The qualifications are their desire to see us achieve more, their desire to push us to be the best we can be. Not for their selfish gain, but because they believe that we have something to offer.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Believe
  • Nice
  • Desire