Simon Sinek Quotes

Pure pragmatism can't imagine a bold future. Pure idealism can't get anything done. It is the delicate blend of both that drives innovation.

Simon Sinek

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• Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Political
  • Organization

• I often reread books I have written.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Books
  • Written
  • Often

• I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Day
  • Teacher
  • Tree

• I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Art
  • Best
  • Addiction

• Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • People
  • You
  • Solitude

• Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Life
  • Up
  • My Life

• Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • People
  • Action
  • Attention

• I've always believed, maybe naively, that 'The play's the thing.'

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Play
  • Always
  • Maybe

• The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Society
  • Lost
  • Horizon

• My owner is life and that's what I fight for.

  

  Pitbull
  • Life

• I always remember smelling Chanel No. 5 at home - my mum used to literally pour it, and she rocked it.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Home
  • She
  • Remember

• In our early period we pretty much survived or perished on our capacity to reach people, and on getting into the pattern of having no money and playing lots of shows.

  

  Peter Garrett Midnight Oil
  • People
  • Money
  • Pretty

• I just feel like you should be able to have a respectful work environment, because if you do, you'll be your best self.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Work
  • Environment

• The belief that we are what the media says we are, what people perceive we are, is soon to be what we think we are. We are treated based on this warped perception. It is hard to get away from it.

  

  Kevin Eubanks
  • People
  • Perception

• At the end of the day, we still make the things that we make. And we found that the best strategy in this very fluid marketplace is to not be tied into any given platform, but to be able to make good content, and good content will be able to live anywhere.

  

  Freddie Wong
  • Good
  • Live

• It makes it harder to write if I watch a lot of television, because television is not like a written story.

  

  Avi

• I would love to have my own shoe line. That I would absolutely love.

  

  Kristin Cavallari

• I'm ready to work and if it happens, it happens. If it doesn't, it's fine.

  

  LaDonna Adrian Gaines
  • Work

• At Indy, we are the NASA of the production-car world, and that's clearly why manufacturers are involved - it's such a good testbed.

  

  Mario Andretti
  • World
  • Good
  • Why

• At Harman, we had to reinvent ourselves so that we can compete on a global playing field. We did it by instituting a culture where teams can take calculated risks. But to inspire such a shift in mindset requires meaningful rewards across the ranks and freedom to experiment and innovate. I like to think of it as our courage culture.

  

  Dinesh Paliwal
  • Culture
  • Freedom
  • Courage

• My definition of media? 'Anything which owns attention.' This could be a game or, perhaps, a platform. Ironically, the media tends to associate media with publishing - digital or otherwise - which, in turn, is too narrow a way to consider not only the media but also the reality of the competitive landscape and media-focused innovation.

  

  Om Malik
  • Game
  • Reality
  • Attention

• Business model innovation is constant in this economy. You start with a vision of a platform. For a while, you think there's a line of sight, and then it's gone. There's suddenly a new angle.

  

  Beth Comstock
  • Business
  • Innovation
  • Economy

• If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • World
  • Energy
  • Joy

• Pure pragmatism can't imagine a bold future. Pure idealism can't get anything done. It is the delicate blend of both that drives innovation.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Imagine
  • Innovation
  • Idealism