Simon Sinek Quotes

When we have a clear sense of our destination, we can be flexible in the route we take to reach it.

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• There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Important
  • Kind
  • Actor

• I think acting, for me, is about play. It's about time, and it's about feeling, like there's a story to tell and I can tell it through my body and my voice.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • Body

• All human beings are, in fact, born with dozens of mutations their parents lacked, and a few of those mutations could well be lethal if we didn't have two copies of every gene, so one can pick up the slack if the other malfunctions.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Human

• I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Grow

• I decided to start acting in my mid-twenties. I studied pre-med, and I have a bachelor's degree in Biology, so when I decided to pursue a different career, I got a lot of, 'What on earth are you doing?' But, I gave myself a year and thought, 'You know what, I'm going to just beat the odds.'

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Different
  • Career
  • Earth

• I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Street
  • Workers
  • Construction

• Wherever I go, people recognize me, call my name, cheer me.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Me
  • Name

• A thing's innate disposition or God-given nature does not lie; whatever this innate disposition says is the truth.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Truth
  • Nature

• I listen to all kinds of music, honestly.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Music
  • Listen
  • Kinds

• I never wanted to do Shakespeare; I never liked watching it, it's always frightened me, and I've never been any good at it. But I really wanted to work with the director Tim Carroll and Mark Rylance.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Good
  • Work
  • Director

• We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singing 'Kumbaya'. We don't really always show the resistance from the government, the resistance from the status quo, from the majority to silence the movement.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Government
  • Singing
  • Silence

• Medicine also disregards national boundaries.

  

  Irving Langmuir
  • Medicine
  • Boundaries
  • Also

• I've always been captivated by the Voynich Manuscript - the mysterious, 15th-century encrypted codex that still baffles cryptologists, linguists, and historians.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Always
  • Mysterious
  • Been

• Sometimes, violent details have been eliminated from fairy tales simply because they were deemed too graphic. So one does not, at the end of Disney's version of 'Cinderella,' see the stepsisters' eyes get pecked and pecked by doves, because Disney wanted to market the story for wholesome family viewing.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Family
  • Eyes
  • End

• If we can increase the share of Islamic finance for the world, countries can benefit - and certainly, Malaysia can benefit from that.

  

  Najib Razak
  • World
  • Share
  • Islamic

• I couldn't write a political song. There's just opinion; it's all arbitrary anyway. It's all subjective.

  

  Cass McCombs
  • Song
  • Political
  • Opinion

• The most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain - fratricidal war.

  

  African Spir
  • War
  • Humanity
  • Duty

• Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

  

  Simone Weil
  • Progress
  • Idea
  • Poison

• Impatience is a hindrance. As with all things if you attempt to take shortcuts, the final destination will rarely be as good and may even be attainable.

  

  Chris Bradford
  • Destination
  • Finals
  • Impatience

• Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Afraid
  • Breathe
  • Meaning

• When we have a clear sense of our destination, we can be flexible in the route we take to reach it.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Clear
  • Destination
  • Flexible