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.
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Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
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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 That is very outdated.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.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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I wouldn't say I'm a phenomenon, just a great athlete.
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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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The first instinctive response to any criticism is a defensive response. (The quicker the response, the more defensive.)
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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.
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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.
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I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.
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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.
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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.
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The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.
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Never content just to be, America is also obliged to mean; America signifies, hence its constant and riveting vulnerability to illusion.
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Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism.
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Until we realize that our money power is our sovereign power we cannot act as sovereigns
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He shoots the ball extremely well from the perimeter, which will help our low-post players, ... He is a veteran who brings both playoff experience and leadership.
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I think, internally, we Catholics have known this for a long time. I think we're just thrilled and grateful that the rest of the world now is sharing in the esteem and gratitude that we've had for Pope John Paul II for 26 and a half years.
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Happiness arises as a result of different causes and conditions. If you harm someone out of anger, you may feel some superficial satisfaction, but deep down you know it was wrong. Your confidence will be undermined. However, if you have an altruistic attitude, you’ll feel comfortable and confident in the presence of others.
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There has come about a general public awareness that America is not automatically, and effortlessly, and unquestionably the leader of the world in science and technology. This comes as no surprise to those of us who have watched and tried to warn against the steady deterioration in the teaching of science and mathematics in the schools for the past quarter century. It comes as no surprise to those who have known of dozens of cases of scientists who have been hounded out of jobs by silly disloyalty charges, and kept out of all professional employment by widespread blacklisting practices.
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I'm not about talking and finger-pointing and complaining. I'm about getting things done.
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The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country.
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Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.
