Simon Sinek Quotes
The best ideas are the honest ones. Ones born out of personal experience. Ones that originated to help a few but ended up helping many.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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I believe in a strong national defense. But it's my belief that neither Iraq nor Afghanistan poses a threat to national security, and we shouldn't be involved in either area.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.
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I had been pursuing a Ph.D. in political science when my National Guard unit was sent to Iraq. Eight months into our deployment, in November 2004, a rocket-propelled grenade fired by Iraqi insurgents tore through the pilot's side of the Blackhawk helicopter I was flying.
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Once, there was a time in Jerusalem of brotherhood and peace: cultures and languages lived side by side and not one at the expense of the other.
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It's like an athlete. He has a string of hot years, and then he fades into nothingness. The actor doesn't necessarily fade into nothingness. After his hot years, he fades into a different category.
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The only thing we lack for even faster growth is more capital.
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Vain, very vain, my weary search to findThat bliss which only centers in the mind.
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Having reached a high level of realization (or having accomplished anything in life), don't get excited or puffed up with pride but remain calm, humble, and in "perfect equanimity" if you want to continue in this deep state of consciousness.
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
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We shouldn't use our own upset as an excuse for not helping.
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From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
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A novel and its writer are inseparable: you are your books. A play's not like that at all. 'Abandonment's not mine - it's everyone's. I wanted it to be a co-operative thing because I was tired of that anal control that I have over novels.
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The best ideas are the honest ones. Ones born out of personal experience. Ones that originated to help a few but ended up helping many.
