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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• The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Men
  • Women
  • Problem

• 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.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Growing

• 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.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thinking

• It's so hard not to smile.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Smile
  • Hard

• 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.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Love
  • Reality
  • Feel

• 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.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Spiritual
  • Progress

• I write with humour about sadness, to introduce an element of sweet to the sour, a bit like Turkish food.

  

  Elif Safak
  • Food
  • Sweet

• 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.

  

  Bernie Mac
  • People
  • Work
  • Hate

• My day-to-day life changes; I don't have any standard day.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Life

• I've never done songs with people just for the sake of the great combination. I've always done songs with friends.

  

  Robert James Ritchi
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• It's really important to stay engaged and involved in the character.

  

  David Ogden Stiers
  • Important
  • Character

• It can be very hard to find clothing for different body shapes. After all, there are only, what, five companies for plus-size women?

  

  Chrissy Metz
  • Different
  • Women

• 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.

  

  Dionne Warwick
  • Kiss

• Songs of different moods are like keys, which help me enter the world of my book's characters.

  

  Amish Tripathi
  • World
  • Different
  • Book

• If someone says I can't do something, I always think I'm going to totally do this to annoy you.

  

  Ella Purnell

• 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.

  

  Roger Daltrey The Who
  • Music
  • Done
  • Success

• I love consumerism, TV culture, shopping malls. There's nothing I'd ever buy, but I like being there. It's wacky.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Culture
  • Shopping

• Retirement is fatal. Luckily, in my profession, you don't have to retire.

  

  Joan Hickson
  • Retirement

• When you're famous, no one looks at you as a human anymore. You become the property of the public.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Real
  • Famous
  • Looks

• Perhaps the spirit of the Everglades was most evident in the unseen, the hidden, the implied.

  

  T. J. MacGregor

• It must be remembered that painting is not the mere gratification of sight.

  

  Joshua Reynolds
  • Painting
  • Sight
  • Gratification

• That still feels like the most accurate description - I felt homesick, but I was home.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Home
  • Feels
  • Description

• Work requires effort. Things we love to do feel effortless. Only do the things you love and you'll never have to work again.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Effort
  • Feels
  • Effortless