Simon Sinek Quotes

You [should] persist even though there are some short-term stresses and even though there is some uncertainty, because it's the right thing to do.

Simon Sinek

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• To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Model
  • Yourself
  • Red

• I love - you know, I'm a big fan of Prince and Curtis Mayfield and Smoky Robinson. It's something to be said about a man who can be very masculine but still display that sensitive side, and that falsetto does it perfectly.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Man
  • Know
  • Sensitive

• I remember when I first came to Liverpool, Pepe Reina helped with everything, and he made it easy for me. When I was Atletico Madrid captain, I tried to help everyone. These are the basics in football: you need to create an atmosphere and try to create a group of friends. It's not easy, and it doesn't always happen, but you have to try.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Help

• I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Rock

• I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Earth

• Comic-Con is really cool. It's different. I like to people-watch. I like to see the costumes.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • People
  • Different
  • Cool

• You can't sit here and try to predict what kind of character I'm going to be drawn to next. At the time when I read 'The Girl on the Train,' it wasn't like I was, 'Ooh, I want to play a hot mess next.'

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Time
  • Character
  • Girl

• I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • People
  • Best
  • Enjoy

• True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • True
  • Imagination
  • Vision

• Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can succeed without the help of a record label. The role of the record label is still required, it's still necessary.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Help
  • Success
  • Artist

• I want to encourage other people to try to discover who they are, not to try to fit into some superficial prototype of what they think a Christian should be, but to discover who they really are.

  

  Larry Norman
  • People
  • Think
  • Christian

• Personality is so important - when you dress somebody for a big party, it is good to feel that the person has an ease and naturalness with what she is wearing.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Good
  • Important
  • She

• The trouble with you John, is that your spine does not reach your brain.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Brain

• A long-running argument exists over whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God. In my view, they certainly do.

  

  Jay Parini
  • God
  • Long
  • Running

• Why do we use flash at all? Because photography is not the same as eyesight. We can see in low-light situations where cameras, dependent upon a physical process to record visual information, are half blind.

  

  David Hewson
  • Why
  • Light
  • Photography

• When a woman buys shoes, she takes them out of the box and looks at herself in the mirror. But she isn't really looking at her shoes - she's looking at herself. If she likes herself, then she likes the shoes.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • She
  • Shoes
  • Mirror

• Some people don't even know my name, but they know I am the man with the red soles.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • People
  • Red

• There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation.

  

  Andrew Greeley
  • Good
  • Support

• Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don't lead to happiness.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Happiness
  • Stress
  • Debt

• I want to stress that at no time Bolivia acts untimely or irresponsibly.

  

  Evo Morales
  • Stress

• We have hopes and make plans, and if they are dashed or waylaid, we naturally rationalize and redraw the map to locate ourselves anew. Or else we brood and too firmly root. Very few can step forward again and again in what amounts to veritable leaps into the void, where there are no ready holds, where little is familiar, where you get constantly stuck in the thickets of your uncertainties and fears.

  

  Chang-Rae Lee
  • Littles
  • Plans
  • Familiar

• The Army was always big on Clausewitz, the Prussian; the Navy on Alfred Thayer Mahan, the American; and the Air Force on Giulio Douhet, the Italian. But the Marine Corps has always been more Eastern-oriented. I am much more comfortable with Sun-tzu and his approach to warfare.

  

  James Mattis
  • American
  • Air
  • Sun

• The thing that's been inhibiting long-form investigative reporting is fear - fear of being sued, of being unpopular, of being criticized by very powerful groups.

  

  Eric Schlosser
  • Long
  • Fear
  • Powerful

• You [should] persist even though there are some short-term stresses and even though there is some uncertainty, because it's the right thing to do.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Stress
  • Uncertainty
  • Persist