Simon Sinek Quotes

Those in pursuit of Why are inspired to do what is right. Those in pursuit of What are driven to do what is easy.

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• What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Positive
  • Blood
  • White

• I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • Up
  • Time
  • Nature

• I never said most of the things I said.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Funny
  • Never
  • Said

• Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Kids
  • Bad
  • Enjoy

• Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Live
  • Children
  • Family

• The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Time
  • Country
  • High

• I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Time
  • Good
  • Crazy

• The alternative to independence is decline, because the relationship with the Spanish state is not good; everyone knows that.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Good
  • Relationship
  • Everyone

• Let's make Marco Rubio explain why he thinks oil companies should write our energy policy.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Why
  • Energy
  • Write

• The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • People
  • Up
  • Growth

• It's getting harder as I get more known. Even though it's my break, I couldn't really go out and get drunk - because people expect you to be training and getting up early. But I'm not bothered about missing out on normal teenage things.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • People
  • Up
  • Training

• Being first lady is a full-time job. Betty Ford worked full time and should have received a salary. Michelle Obama works full time and should be paid.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Time
  • Job
  • Salary

• I bounce my knees, but I do not have restless leg syndrome. I did an interview, I don't even know who it was with, and they said I told them I have restless leg syndrome and it distracts me from my work. I do not have any syndrome.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Work
  • Interview
  • Restless

• I would love to spend a year living in New York; I've wanted to do that since I was 18. I'll be really disappointed if I'm 50 and haven't done something like that.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Like
  • Living
  • Disappointed

• Every day, members of the LGBTQ community deal with challenges that most Americans will never have to face. These challenges appear in the workplace, in your homes, in your community, and even in the halls of Congress.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Community
  • Day
  • Challenges

• I don't believe that someone who sets up an institution should be able to take out the money from the institution or pay dividends to shareholders. I am not saying that institutions should be set up for charity.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Money
  • Charity
  • Institution

• Our memories are convenient lies we create, cribbing images from others' experiences. We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Art
  • Memories
  • Lies

• I'm not a journalist. I have not gone to school for this.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • School
  • Gone
  • Journalist

• I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Together
  • Black
  • Light

• There's one guy who inspired a nation of golfers, and that's Greg Norman. He's been incredible to me and all the great golfers.

  

  Adam Derek Scott
  • Great
  • Guy
  • Me

• Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than being... and consumerism is hardly the sin of the rich. The poor, driven by discontent and envy, may be as consumed by what they do not have as the rich are consumed by what they do have. The question is not, certainly not most importantly, a question about economics. It is first and foremost a cultural and moral problem requiring a cultural and moral remedy.

  

  Richard John Neuhaus
  • Simple
  • Problem
  • Moral

• That whole rivalry with the fans is not something that I can pay attention to right now. This is my new home, and whatever I can do to help out Seattle is what I need to do.

  

  B. J. Daniels
  • Home
  • Help
  • Attention

• I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn't happen.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Small
  • Small Town

• Those in pursuit of Why are inspired to do what is right. Those in pursuit of What are driven to do what is easy.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Inspired
  • Easy
  • Driven