Simon Sinek Quotes

Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.

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• I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Couple
  • Thought
  • Teenager

• Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.

  

  Hafez
  • Trying
  • Running
  • Happiness

• I feel that we, as Indians, have a knack for loving a stereotypical, sobbing, sympathy-seeking personality. I feel that we need to promote quirky, cool and youthful talent. We have to stop propagating the sob-story angle of celebs, where they try to be larger-than-life. That is very outdated. It is so boring that it puts you to sleep.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Cool

• If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • God
  • Eat
  • Sugar

• There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Heart
  • Sometimes
  • English

• I wouldn't say I'm a phenomenon, just a great athlete.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Great
  • Athlete
  • Say

• The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Real
  • Dying

• The first instinctive response to any criticism is a defensive response. (The quicker the response, the more defensive.)

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Criticism

• Gassoon, for all his lore, subscribed to a common fallacy: he assumed that all those whom he encountered appraised him in the same terms as he did himself.

  

  Jack Vance

• I created 'Captain Underpants' when I was in the second grade. I was constantly getting in trouble for being the class clown, so my teacher sent me out into the hallway to punish me. It was there in the hall that I began drawing 'Captain Underpants'. Soon I was making my own comic books about him.

  

  Dav Pilkey
  • Teacher
  • Drawing

• I do get bottled up in interviews. You're thinking about what you're saying, and suddenly you get all tangled. So people think I'm sullen, or that I don't have much to say. But my friends will tell you: a lot of times I talk too much.

  

  Matt Dillon
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.

  

  Philip Green
  • Business

• We are all members of a single humanity, inside our hearts we all speak the same language, we all love our children and our parents, we all live in the same world.

  

  Marc Forne Molne
  • World
  • Live
  • Children

• One thing I would say is real cops have real gallows senses of humor and make incredibly funny and inappropriate jokes in the presence of dead people all the time.

  

  Daniel J. Goor
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.

  

  John Frusciante
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Relationship

• Never content just to be, America is also obliged to mean; America signifies, hence its constant and riveting vulnerability to illusion.

  

  Martin Amis
  • America
  • Vulnerability

• Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism.

  

  David Harvey
  • History

• Until we realize that our money power is our sovereign power we cannot act as sovereigns

  

  Edwin Clarence Riegel
  • Money
  • Power
  • Realizing

• Social support is not the same as merely being in the presence of others. The critical issue is reciprocity: being truly heard and seen by the people around us, feeling that we are held in someone else’s mind and heart. For our physiology to calm down, heal, and grow we need a visceral feeling of safety. No doctor can write a prescription for friendship and love: These are complex and hard-earned capacities. You don’t need a history of trauma to feel self-conscious and even panicked at a party with strangers—but trauma can turn the whole world into a gathering of aliens.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • People
  • Heart
  • Support

• I really love a lot of Japanese music, like Ryuichi Sakamoto and this guy I got really into, Tatsuro Yamashita. When I was a little younger, I thought synthesizers meant Kraftwerk, cold, robotic, weird, Autobahn. But these guys are having a lot of fun on these things. Sometimes. Sometimes it's very somber. They could go either way.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Guy

• I have no complaints about losing money I put in high-risk investments. I did some of that when I had real money; my informed choice, my measured gamble.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Real
  • Money
  • High

• Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Complaining
  • Optimism
  • Complaints