Simon Sinek Quotes
Too many people write books because they want to be a New York Times best-seller. They want the glory and the fame.
Quotes to Explore
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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Then India, everyone has his own idea of India.
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Vampires are super sexy.
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Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.
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The prestige of the international financial institutions rates less than zero.
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If you absolutely can't tolerate critics, then don't do anything new or interesting.
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When you write something by hand, there's a sort of intimacy that is just intrinsic to that act. You don't get to delete something in the same way, where it's like it was never there.
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We allow ourselves to unclench when we're home with our families, which is one of the truly wonderful advantages of human intimacy.
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I scare the neighbors, the kids... They don't come to my house for trick-or-treating, trust me. I had to buy exactly zero amount of dollars worth of candy for the past couple of years.
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A double bind is far worse than a straightforward damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't dilemma. It requires you to obey two mutually exclusive commands: Anything you do to fulfill one violates the other.
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Over the years, when you're in a band with a catalog like Aerosmith's, you accumulate a lot of instruments to duplicate those songs.
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It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.
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My music was made with everyone in mind with no prejudice towards anyone.
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At the end of every stage performance, the audience all applaud me for doing my job, but I have friends who work in offices who don't get that.
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My relationships with producers or photographers - these are relationships that took years.
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All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
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Too many people write books because they want to be a New York Times best-seller. They want the glory and the fame.
