Simon Sinek Quotes
Work requires effort. Things we love to do feel effortless. Only do the things you love and you'll never have to work again.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
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It's so hard not to smile.
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The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be.
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I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage-an inexorable demand-that we should cease to kill our fellow-creatures for satisfaction of our bodily wants.
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I write with humour about sadness, to introduce an element of sweet to the sour, a bit like Turkish food.
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I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it.
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My day-to-day life changes; I don't have any standard day.
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I've never done songs with people just for the sake of the great combination. I've always done songs with friends.
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It's really important to stay engaged and involved in the character.
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It can be very hard to find clothing for different body shapes. After all, there are only, what, five companies for plus-size women?
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I had said before that I'd never write an autobiography because I've been around, and there's a lot that I've seen and heard that stays with me. That's just mine. I didn't want to do a kiss-and-tell, as some of my peers have.
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Songs of different moods are like keys, which help me enter the world of my book's characters.
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If someone says I can't do something, I always think I'm going to totally do this to annoy you.
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I don't like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, I'm pleased with Pete's success but I don't like what they've done to it.
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I love consumerism, TV culture, shopping malls. There's nothing I'd ever buy, but I like being there. It's wacky.
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Retirement is fatal. Luckily, in my profession, you don't have to retire.
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On my darkest days, I wear my brightest colors.
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That is why we wholeheartedly support the American-led effort to free the people of Iraq. And though we are a small country with a small military, we are proud to stand side by side with our allies in the fight to end the reign of terror in Baghdad.
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But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.
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Work requires effort. Things we love to do feel effortless. Only do the things you love and you'll never have to work again.
