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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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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The only thing we lack for even faster growth is more capital.
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I have a huge note on my phone where things just start popping up. It doesn't make that much sense to me at the time, but once a song is finished, I can read into it and figure out who the characters are in my life.
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You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend.
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Whether it's Facebook or Google or the other companies, that basic principle that users should be able to see and control information about them that they themselves have revealed to the companies is not baked into how the companies work. But it's bigger than privacy. Privacy is about what you're willing to reveal about yourself.
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Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
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I believe I have quality, and that's why I won a grand slam, so I know I can do it again.
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It's great to surprise people. If you do the same thing all over again, which people expect you to do, they're going to get bored.
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I never skulk, and lurk only sometimes.
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Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.
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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.
