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 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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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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Each year, you've got to talk about it more and more, you've got to have programs. You're doing these camps, you've got to talk about concussion awareness.
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Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.
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You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more horrific because they've had the release of the laugh before it.
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I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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From all kinds of flowers, Seek teachings everywhere, Like a deer that finds A quiet place to graze, Seek Seclusion to digest All you have gathered. . .
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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
