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 That is very outdated.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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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.
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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 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.
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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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No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty.
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Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get.
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Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.
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No, I'm not anguished and tormented.
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The new, young, chic and acquisitive rich, the restless young Europeans and the beautiful people still flit from Palm Beach's polo fields to Newport's yachts with refueling stops at Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent and Tiffany.
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Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.
