Simon Sinek Quotes
The responsibility of leadership is not taken, it is given. Only when others choose to follow us can we truly lead.
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I've always been attracted to women who are assertive and have confidence - qualities older women possess. They've been on the Earth a little longer. They're more seasoned. They don't play games. They know what they want, and they're not afraid to tell you.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
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Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.
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Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
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For 'Dragon Quest IX,' one of the biggest things was being able to create your own character and your party members, too. The importance of it is that you can customize the face, the name, or something like that, so the party members are really a reflection of you. It becomes more of your own experience.
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You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.
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I am extremely privileged to serve Rhode Island in the United States Senate, and that is my only goal and aspiration.
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I have always meticulously storyboarded my films from beginning to end.
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Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.
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Breathe through your movements.
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As President Bush just said, a great nation doesn’t shy from the truth. It strengthens us. It emboldens us. It should fortify us.
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I have to let him know that he's potentially destroying his movie, that he could be making a terrible, terrible error. I needed to let him know that I didn't know or think that I was capable of doing this.
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The first kind of evil is that which is caused to man by the circumstance that he is subject to genesis and destruction, or that he possesses a body.
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I think books are chiefly responsible for my dogged self determined efforts to write; books & verisimilitude; I like to describe things.
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I am still working on developing my voice. I am, I know, better as a coloratura singer than I was. It's a matter of strong breath control and yet making it sound as though it is the easiest thing in the world.
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Taking responsibility and having faith in your own judgment will help you make good choices and decisions at the end of your pet's life.
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In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
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It is a Modern day, and these times need Modern solutions to Modern problems.
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By electricity we have not been driven out of our senses so much as our senses have been driven out of us. (p. 375)
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The responsibility of leadership is not taken, it is given. Only when others choose to follow us can we truly lead.
