Simon Sinek Quotes
Academic experts may not be good at doing what they are experts in themselves, but they are good at explaining the subject matter to others. They write books, teach courses and offer lessons and give steps others can follow.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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As a boy, I had an uncle, T. G. Bond, who lived near Moreton Hampstead and who was passionately devoted to Dartmoor. He inspired me with the same love.
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If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.
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Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.
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When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that because of the writers I was hanging out with.
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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
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At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.
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Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.
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We have filmmakers who make films with some kind of responsibility and take cinema seriously like Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Prakash Jha. But now these people also take stars... Without stars they cannot work.
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The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law - an imaginative escape from palling reality - hence, phenomena rather than persons are the logical 'heroes.'
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A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
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I'm the only person that has ever run a principle-based legislative body.
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And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.
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My mom, Cheryl, worked two jobs to support me. She really helped the family stay together.
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I have a professional life, and so does the media. Let's face it: how can they come up with new gossip every day? So, they have to make stuff up about someone's personal life, which is fine.
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If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book.
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If I could get someone like John Grisham or someone like that to sit down and write a book with me, I'd love that.
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I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.
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Academic experts may not be good at doing what they are experts in themselves, but they are good at explaining the subject matter to others. They write books, teach courses and offer lessons and give steps others can follow.
