Simon Sinek Quotes
Optimists focus on the place they are going. Pessimists focus on the obstacles along the route. To become an optimist simply look ahead.
Quotes to Explore
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We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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Eventually, the bad boy image affects fans' willingness to show up.
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Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
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To have a sense of style, it shows you know yourself. People like that.
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I have over a hundred clocks. I've got fancy clocks and clocks from all over the world that people made for me.
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For me, to do a reality show is like sending myself to actor's graveyard. I feel like I should wait and create my own projects... do independent movies before I would have to go and do reality shows. Or produce one and come up with one on my own!
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We won't be in any reggae publications or websites.
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I'm very lucky to have a job that I love.
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My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a children's book with ten different stories. In each story, the main character Boo learns a lesson - one of the ten most important lessons I learned as a kid. I also donated all the money from my books I personally sold to my local ASPCA Animal Shelter.
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I have started my own foundation. It's called Follow Your Art. It's at its infancy but my goal is to mentor teenage girls through one of the most difficult times in their lives.
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I'm concerned and alarmed about the images of girls and women that are broadcast every single minute.
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The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living long enough to see that disease expressed.
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You're only as good as your last record and you could get dropped.
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Africa’s progress will also depend on security and peace - because an essential part of human dignity is being safe and free from fear.
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I think we all have a little dark side we keep under wraps.
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The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
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Every habit is made of three parts... a cue, a routine and a habit. Most people focus on the routine and behavior, but these cues and rewards are really the way you make something into a habit.
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Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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When you step outside of school and have to teach yourself about life, you develop a different relationship to information. I've never been a purely linear thinker. You can see it in my rhymes. My mind is always jumping around, restless, making connections, mixing and matching ideas, rather than marching in a straight line. That's why I'm always stressing focus. My thoughts chase each other from room to room in my head if I let them, so sometimes I have to slow myself down.
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Silence is refreshment for the soul.
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Optimists focus on the place they are going. Pessimists focus on the obstacles along the route. To become an optimist simply look ahead.
