Simon Sinek Quotes
New ideas need audiences like flowers need bees. No matter how bright and colorful, they will die unless others work to spread them
Quotes to Explore
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This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.
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It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
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A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
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At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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Young people have so many letdowns that people don't realize.
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I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.
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Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.
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Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
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The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.
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My English was limited to vacationing and not really engaging with Americans. I knew 'shopping' and 'eating' English - I could say 'blue sweater,' 'creme brulee,' and 'Caesar salad,' - so I came here thinking I spoke English.
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be.
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A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
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I don't know that I could play a complete and total mess. After awhile, I think I would be like, 'No, none of that!'
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Being a father is just wonderful.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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Girls run the world.
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My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it.
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So I've learnt that the world is 4,500 million years old. If you're very religious, then it's not 4,500 million years old, it's 6,000 years old. One of these is not correct.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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The brain is a stubborn organ. Once its primary set of beliefs has been established, the brain finds it difficult to integrate opposing ideas and beliefs. This has profound consequences for individuals and society and helps to explain why some people cannot abandon destructive beliefs, be they religious, political or psychological.
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New ideas need audiences like flowers need bees. No matter how bright and colorful, they will die unless others work to spread them
