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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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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Oh gosh, well, you know, growing up in the '70s being a young boy there, you know, there were still exploitation movies, where, you know, were, you know, still opened up every week and, you know, played - sometimes they would play it at the local, you know, mall theater.
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I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?
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In the theater the audience is generally riveted to a single angle of observation. The movie director, though, can rapidly shift from objective to subjective--and to any number of subjective points of view--and in so doing seem to pull the audience directly inside the frame of his picture, giving the spectator the sense of experiencing an action from the viewpoint of a participant. Identification of the viewer with the film character, then, can be much more intimate than the analogous situation in the theater.
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Know yourself -- and know your audience.
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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
