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 That is very outdated.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

• Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.

  

  Billy Gibbons ZZ Top
  • May

• 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

• We're in control of where we're going to be. I know we're not right in the position we want to be to win the league or anything like that, but if we win out and just take care of business, I think we'll be successful.

  

  Bobby Frasor
  • Business
  • Control
  • Win

• If we finally chose as a country to take responsibility for the wars that we believe we must engage in, and rather than borrow money to exercise that authority to go to war, we actually pay for these wars, that would save us over a trillion dollars, because that's what we have spent in Iraq and Afghanistan - all through borrowed money.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Money

• 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.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Different
  • May
  • Confidence

• In most of the countries in the Muslim world today, most of them are autocratic regimes that are unpopular if not detested by their people. They need a scapegoat and for a long time the imperialist served that purpose.

  

  Bernard Lewis
  • People
  • Purpose
  • Muslim

• If empathy channels our optimism, we will see the empathy and the diseases and the poor school. We will answer with our innovations and we will surprise the pessimists.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Empathy
  • Optimism
  • Diseases

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

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Complaining
  • Optimism
  • Complaints