Simon Sinek Quotes

If we inspire people, they will give us more than we asked for. If we manipulate them, they will give us exactly what we paid for

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• It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Up
  • Time
  • Government

• My favorite books are psychology, self-help, and I'm fascinated by Jung, by dream work.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Help
  • Dream

• There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • May
  • War
  • Attention

• I naturally like that dreamy, shoegazey sound on my vocals. A lot of reverb helps, and so do a lot of delay effects on everything.

  

  Washed Out
  • Sound
  • Everything
  • Delay

• You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Love
  • Respect
  • Treat

• That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Parents
  • See
  • Kissing

• I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Great
  • Like
  • Artist

• I'm not a journalist. I have not gone to school for this.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • School
  • Gone
  • Journalist

• My role in the White House was grossly exaggerated by the press. Fortunately for the American people, when the president had to make a critical economic decision or a decision on a weapons system, he did not turn to me and say, 'Hamilton, what in the hell do I do?'

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • American
  • House

• I was good at math, math was my thing - but I was not nearly good enough to be an astrophysicist. I was way outta my league. I realized this very quickly.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Good
  • Way
  • Enough

• I have feelings that are to the right, and I have feelings that land on the left side of the aisle. The thing is if you have 10 views that land you on the left side of the aisle and two views that land you on the right side of the aisle, then people just put you on the right side of the aisle. I'm not sure why.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Why
  • Feelings

• Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two Judiciary Committees, all of whom are lawyers, and the Congress is predominately a lawyers' body.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Law

• Far from it be the notion that the Supreme Being is corporeal, having a material form.

  

  Maimonides

• It's one thing to make something, and then it's another thing to put it in front of other people.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • People

• I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.

  

  Albert Ellis
  • World
  • Work
  • Happy

• I'm not even sure I want to use the term 'coming out.'

  

  Binyavanga Wainaina

• Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still more Chinese and generally kicking around the country.

  

  Eric Allin Cornell
  • Country
  • Chinese

• I made the conscious decision to not have kids, and I didn't want to be married.

  

  Loni Love
  • Kids
  • Decision

• I don't know how people do this job collaboratively if they don't really get along. You're spending all day every day for months and years on end with somebody.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Job
  • Day

• I think I'm just more adaptable now, so danger, overall, seems less dangerous to me.

  

  Heather Donahue
  • Danger
  • Dangerous
  • Seems

• If there is a lesson in our story it is that the manipulation, according to strictly self-consistent rules, of a set of symbols representing one single aspect of the phenomena may produce correct, verifiable predictions, and yet completely ignore all other aspects whose ensemble constitutes reality...

  

  Arthur Koestler
  • May
  • Reality
  • Single

• We need creative people working with broadcasters, making smart content to inspire people to be geniuses.

  

  will.i.am
  • People
  • Smart
  • Creative

• The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Theater
  • Profession
  • Esteem

• If we inspire people, they will give us more than we asked for. If we manipulate them, they will give us exactly what we paid for

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Inspire
  • Manipulation
  • Manipulate