Simon Sinek Quotes

Outside advice can only tell you how a decision looks. Only you can know how it feels. The best decisions look and feel right.

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• I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Think
  • Religious
  • Religion

• I love hiking in the hills not far from my house. I'm invested in my hikes. Sometimes kids go up there and spray-paint over the signs; I've found a biodegradable paint cleaner, and I'll scrub the signs so they're nice and clean.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Nice
  • Found
  • Hiking

• When your dreams include service to others - accomplishing something that contributes to others - it also accelerates the accomplishment of that goal. People want to be part of something that contributes and makes a difference.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Service
  • Dreams

• I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.

  

  Ralph Waite
  • Play
  • Church
  • Taken

• Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Time
  • Past
  • Savage

• With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Up
  • School
  • Friends

• I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Good
  • Someone
  • Lyric

• The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • Trying
  • Saying

• CIU is not something to just tolerate. It's important to find an allergist or dermatologist who can work with you to help manage your condition.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Work
  • Important
  • Help

• I'm surrounded by friends and family who are not that impressed by celebrity. They don't have any problem telling me I'm acting like an idiot or I'm not that funny.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Funny

• Sucking up to a director means you are unsure of your talents. I'm not.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Up
  • You
  • Director

• You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.

  

  Walter Lord
  • People
  • Up
  • Always

• A lot of us who grew up in the country, hunting and fishing, being very familiar with the woods and dirt roads, have the skill set you need to fight fire.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Up
  • Country
  • Fire

• I eat lots of fresh fruits and vegetables.

  

  Colbie Caillat

• The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.

  

  Jay Leno
  • Men
  • Religious
  • Wise

• I have written for, very fortunately, some great singers from Frank Sinatra to Elvis Presley.

  

  Neil Sedaka
  • Great

• While I believe firmly in open markets and free trade, I also believe an open market needs a level playing field.

  

  Philip Hammond
  • Believe
  • Free

• When I started at Puma, you had a restaurant that was a Puma restaurant, an Adidas restaurant, a bakery. The town was literally divided. If you were working for the wrong company, you wouldn't be served any food; you couldn't buy anything. So it was kind of an odd experience.

  

  Jochen Zeitz
  • Experience
  • Food

• I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • Advice
  • Act
  • Welcome

• I remember breaking the news to both my parents that I wanted to be a director, and they both looked very doubtful. They didn't know what a closet Hindi film buff I was. I used to dance to old Hindi films songs on the sly, so my decision to be a part of Hindi cinema was shocking even for my parents.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Remember
  • Parents
  • Decision

• Being good is something that one must choose over and over again, every day, throughout the day, for the rest of one's life," Asher said. "A day is made of a thousand decisions, most small, some huge. With each decision you have the chance to work toward light, or sink toward darkness.

  

  Cate Tiernan
  • Life
  • Good
  • Decision

• Dr. King's famous 'I Have a Dream' speech was delivered at 'The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,' a call to justice beyond the traditional civil rights movement's focus.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • Dream
  • Freedom
  • Focus

• If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.

  

  William Penn
  • Men
  • Giving
  • Gains

• Outside advice can only tell you how a decision looks. Only you can know how it feels. The best decisions look and feel right.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Decision
  • Feels
  • Advice