Simon Sinek Quotes

Genius is in the idea. Impact, however, comes from action!

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• I never was a very good singer.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Good
  • Never
  • Singer

• I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Why
  • Think
  • Road

• Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I used to live on a reserve, but I went back and forth between my reserve and Ottawa where my father lived, so I kind of had a double life growing up.

  

  Kaniehtiio Horn
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• If I am not right for something there are many talented actors out there that will get it.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Actors
  • Talented

• It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Golf
  • Impossible

• Play for Canada? Why not? I have a Canadian passport.

  

  Oscar Taveras
  • Why
  • Play
  • Canada

• The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Up
  • Constitution
  • Physics

• I danced with Jacques d'Amboise. At that time, he was the tallest man in the company. So it was a different kind of choreography. It was lyrical.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Time
  • Different
  • Man

• The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Family
  • May
  • Humanity

• I'd like there to be consistently more women's storylines going on at the same time.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Time
  • Women
  • Same

• No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Women
  • Question
  • Crazy

• After almost 30 years of playing this sport, I've learned something. I've learned that, no matter what happens, or happened... or where you are, or where you've been... at the end of the day: tennis is tennis. It's always, always tennis. And there's nothing better.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Day
  • Better
  • End

• I'm going to put a museum on my ranch and people keep saying, 'That's a huge idea.' Yeah, it's big, but not bigger than the average big movie. A hundred million dollars in the art world is a substantial amount of cash to do anything. That's maybe a big gallery's total sales for a given year.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• In England a man is presoomed to be innocent till he's proved guilty an' they take it f 'r granted he's guilty. In this counthry a man is presoomed to be guilty ontil he's proved guilty an' afther that he's presoomed to be innocent.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Guilty
  • Innocent

• It's a bird … it's a plane … no, it's KernelMan, faster than a speeding bullet, to your rescue. Doing new kernel versions in under 5 seconds flat …

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Bird

• I may not always love you But long as there are stars above you You never need to doubt it I'll make you so sure about it God only knows what I'd be without you…

  

  Brian Wilson
  • God
  • Long
  • May

• 'Oh yes,' said the Emperor. 'That’s what you have to do when you approach the Celestial Presence-that’s me.''Well, I’m afraid that no cat in the world ever bowed to an emperor,' said Jason. 'They just won’t do it, Ichigo, and you’re wasting your time if you try to force them. A cat does what he wants, when he wants, emperor or not.'

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Time
  • World
  • Cat

• Tile is going to the landfill by the metric ton. All we have to do it gather it up, glue it down to the floor and grout it. Then you have a tile floor, and not just any tile floor: it's a mosaic of your own choosing.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Up
  • You
  • Down

• Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance of toil, and they abandon the slothful.

  

  John Milton
  • Men
  • Wealth
  • Pursue

• Forgiveness - this needs to be our greatest skill. The way to get good at forgiveness is: to be thankful for all the little things you see in the other person.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Person
  • Forgiveness
  • Skill

• It can be said that the first half of the marathon is 20 miles long; the second half, 6.2 more.

  

  Hal Higdon
  • Marathon

• Genius is in the idea. Impact, however, comes from action!

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Action
  • Ideas
  • Genius