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 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

• 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

• 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 studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the summer and at three part-time jobs during the year.

  

  Jacqueline Novogratz
  • Time
  • Summer

• To be yourself is truly a revolutionary act, and I think more and more people should try it, because it's gotten me a pretty cool life.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • People
  • Life
  • Pretty

• Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.

  

  Constantin Brancusi
  • Work
  • God
  • King

• I'm a child of the '80s, so like everyone else, I love all those classic, formative movies - 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off,' 'Pretty in Pink,' 'Sixteen Candles,' 'Dirty Dancing,' etc., with 'St. Elmo's Fire' and 'The Breakfast Club' existing on a separate, slightly higher plane.

  

  Lauren Weisberger
  • Pretty
  • Fire
  • Dirty

• Nike told me, 'We can't give you royalties because you're not a professional athlete.' I told them 'I'll go to the Garden and play one-on-no-one.' I'm a performance athlete!

  

  Kanye West
  • Professional
  • Garden
  • Athlete

• That was really strange, having to come up with a new surname [when my agent deemed my birth name too hard for people to remember]. After a long decision making process, me and my parents agreed on Lara because that was the name that sounded the most beautiful.

  

  Alexandra Maria Lara
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Actor
  • Where
  • Rehearsal

• I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Think
  • Christian
  • Trouble

• 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