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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I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.
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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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I don't want to be known as an item dancer. I want to be known as an actress only.
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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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Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.
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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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We can't talk about the black community. It's no longer a homogeneous community; it was never a homogeneous community.
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No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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And it's tough traveling. You know, the hotels and the airports and all that. That part, eating and getting around to the hotel room and then going on.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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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
