Simon Sinek Quotes

Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don't think we can achieve something beyond what we're qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams?

Simon Sinek

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• If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
  • People
  • Society
  • Control

• I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Good
  • Work
  • Pretty

• You've got to take the bitter with the sour.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • You
  • Bitter
  • Sour

• For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Remember

• I realised I'd been spoiled at Liverpool. We were used to winning. In Italy I grew up as a person. I didn't enjoy the football, mind. It was very defensive, but I became a better player because of the work I had to do around the box. Off the pitch, I learned about what to eat and what to drink to be successful, and I learned about life.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• I'm from Pennsylvania, so I was in New York a lot and my brother lives in New York.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Brother
  • New
  • New York

• A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Long
  • Power
  • Sometimes

• People expect to see white guys, Sunday afternoon, on 'Face the Nation.' And people with a direct interest in politics do watch those shows. But not a lot of normal people watch those shows. But, 'Real Time With Bill Maher,' it's unbelievable how many people watch that.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• A mom has to be ready for anything.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • Mom
  • Anything
  • Ready

• Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Look
  • Devil
  • Performance

• We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government.

  

  Zoe Lofgren
  • Government
  • Election

• Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Society
  • Fear
  • Change

• Corruption often exists because there are too many market forces, not too few.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang

• My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.

  

  Jillian Bach
  • School
  • Education
  • Advice

• Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your manuscript to people. Write it. Finish it. I set those rules up years ago, and nothing's changed.

  

  Jerry Pournelle
  • People
  • Up
  • Reading

• There's no more important consumer product today than a cell phone.

  

  Mary Dillon
  • Important
  • Today

• Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don't look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.

  

  Bjork
  • People
  • Music
  • Lyrics

• I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.

  

  Kathie Lee Gifford

• When I'm traveling out of the country, a lot of guys give me a high five, and then they're like, 'I love your work!'

  

  Ashley Graham
  • Work
  • Country
  • High

• I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.

  

  Martin Scorsese

• But apart from the military measures, security measures, of course, Afghanistan needs great help for building up its social life, its economic life. It has become a very poor country, neglected for many years.

  

  Bulent Ecevit
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• That is my responsibility. Obviously, I think we want to be more productive than what we were in the playoffs. That will be one of the things we look hard at. Offensively, how can we do a better job?

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Job
  • Responsibility
  • Progress

• I think it's all been fantastic. It has only been 45 minutes and we've already done really well.

  

  Bob Denver
  • Done
  • Fantastic

• Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don't think we can achieve something beyond what we're qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams?

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Dream
  • Reality
  • Desire