Simon Sinek Quotes

What good is it to have a belly if there's no fire in it? Wake up, drink your passion, light a match and get to work.

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• I came across 'The Song of Achilles' by Madeline Miller in one of the most romantic ways one can find a story. I was digging through a pile of used books at my local library when my hand gravitated toward its brilliant teal and glistening gold cover.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Song
  • Hand
  • Gold

• I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Career
  • Past
  • Amazing

• My family never had a business background. We are artistes.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Family
  • Business
  • Never

• A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Movie
  • Humanity
  • Human

• I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Quality
  • Like
  • Genre

• I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Really

• I write novels and other things.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Things
  • Write
  • Novels

• I met Gerhard Richter and Alighiero Boetti when I was a teenager, and I was really inspired by them. When Boetti died, I realized I only vaguely remembered so many things he told me. It was such a pity. Had I only recorded his voice, he would still be with me, and I could listen to it from time to time.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Time
  • Voice
  • Inspired

• The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Never
  • Type
  • Handsome

• Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Money
  • Friends
  • Movies

• I'm glad that people know my military service. But, like this nation, we are more than our military. And the rest of our story is the same as the rest of my story.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • People
  • Know
  • Rest

• I think a lot of people don't actually know me. They think, 'She's like this,' or, 'She's like that.' They say I have no emotions - I do, but you couldn't see them then. I had to keep them inside.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• In college, I took an acting class as a lark. I was surprised by how much it interested me. It seemed like something I could do my whole life and always try to get better at.

  

  Ebon Moss-Bachrach
  • Life
  • College
  • Better

• Jon Anik better get a motherfucking 209 tattoo or I'm whoop is little ass.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Tattoo

• Die Botschaft hör ich wohl, allein, mir fehlt der Glaube

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Die

• I have loved colours, and not flowers;Their motion, not the swallows wings;And wasted more than half my hoursWithout the comradeship of things.

  

  Arthur Symons

• This is something you can never erase. It leaves a scar on you.

  

  Ai Weiwei

• Poetry is a form of necessary speech.

  

  Edward Hirsch
  • Poetry

• Just as it's possible to write a TCP/IP protocol stack in some utterly inappropriate programming language like ML or Visual Basic, so, too, it's possible to implement TCP/IP over carrier pigeons, or paper tape, or daemons summoned from the vasty deep.

  

  Charles Stross
  • Deep

• There was an article about me once, and the first line was, 'It's good to be a gangster.' Well, I'm not a gangster. I'm an actor.

  

  Frank Vincent
  • Good
  • Gangster

• If you can find something that you're really passionate about, whether you're a man or a woman comes a lot less into play. Passion is a gender-neutralizing force.

  

  Marissa Mayer
  • Passion

• There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.

  

  Plutarch
  • Character
  • Passion
  • Authority

• What good is it to have a belly if there's no fire in it? Wake up, drink your passion, light a match and get to work.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Passion
  • Fire
  • Drink