Simon Sinek Quotes

I knew what I did and I knew how I did it, but I didn't know why.

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• I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Story
  • Audience
  • Experiences

• I'm a big Otis Redding fan, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. My hero is David Bowie. But I like the Beatles, the Stones.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Wonder
  • Hero
  • Green

• What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.

  

  David McCandless

• My current motto is to go for it, whatever it is that inspires you.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Inspires
  • Motto

• Sometimes I can't believe I'm going to be 60. I always say there's no point moaning about getting older, when there's nothing you can do about it. But still, I do find it quite funny. I look at that number, 60, and I think, really? Me?

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Believe
  • Funny
  • Point

• Could've sworn I heard you say Amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe. Did it fall from your tongue without warning? Or just another trick to fall from your sleeve?

  

  Ben Harper
  • Believe
  • Fall
  • Morning

• Don't need cars cause we've learned to fly on Saturn.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Fly
  • Cars
  • Saturn

• Having worked in the planning field for over 18 years, I think I would be an asset during the upcoming master plan update.

  

  Paul Williams The Temptations
  • I Think
  • Planning
  • Master

• This will without doubt play into the hands of separatists in Kosovo and Montenegro wanting to leave the (Yugoslav) federation

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Play
  • Doubt
  • Kosovo

• Am I not ninja enough? Are you saying that I lack ninja?

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Ninja

• He who does not welcome the Cross does not welcome God.

  

  Leslie Earl Maxwell
  • God

• The natural way of ensuring that the past continues to live in the present and to inform the future is to write it down.

  

  Ian_Jack
  • Writing
  • Live
  • Future

• The trouble is, being an actor, you're always being sent scripts, so you've always got something to read. You've always got about three scripts to read, that you have to read, all the time. So finding a book or getting into a book series is hard, especially for me.

  

  Thomas Brodie-Sangster
  • Time
  • Book
  • Trouble

• In film, I don't think I'd try directing. Maybe one day, but I'd certainly want to go to film school or something before I tried to do something like that. That would be quite scary.

  

  Amelia Warner
  • School
  • Film
  • Directing

• The little I know of it has not served to raise my opinion of what is vulgarly called the Monied Interest; I mean, that blood-sucker, that muckworm, that calls itself the friend of government.

  

  William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
  • Business
  • Government
  • Opinion

• I design for myself and the first question I ask is, 'Would I wear it?'

  

  Claudia Schiffer
  • Question
  • Design

• To speak of the impotence of power is no longer a witty paradox.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Power
  • Speak
  • Paradox

• I mean, it didn't matter to me that there were people, it didn't matter that I was shy Just the sound was so captivating that it helped me to get rid of those inhibitions.

  

  Eric Clapton Cream

• I knew what I did and I knew how I did it, but I didn't know why.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Knows