Simon Sinek Quotes
What I thought I developed all of those years ago was a pattern to understand communication.
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When I was a teenager, I was an umpire for a competitive league for 8- to 9-year-olds. I was really bad at it because I didn't know all the rules, and all these kids were better athletes than me. I made a bad call, and this dad snapped on me. Then he dumped his trash from his cooler, and I had to kick him out of the stands.
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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I have never liked the 'Been there done that' thing... You hear that all the time from people, and I think it's just based on pure insecurity... Each person is going to have their own unique take on something.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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A whole series of events pushed me towards meditation, and now it's become such an integral part of the way I manage myself. It's a tool for me; when you're an entrepreneur, and you're pulled in every direction, it is wonderful to have this discipline.
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I always thought I should be treated like a star.
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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
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You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!
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It's a very violent game, and bodies take a beating, so you want to make sure you do everything you can to get your body back. It's just something you have to do.
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If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
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Sanitising stories, leaching out all of the sense of danger and the darkness out of the stories, actually reduces them and stops them from doing what they're supposed to do, which is teach us how to manage our lives.
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Too often, when Europeans talked of trans-Atlantic ties, we focused on the North Atlantic only.
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I'd met some awfully tough gals in my life, and I find them compelling, if I don't have to socialize with them too much.
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The smell of home was indistinguishable from the smell of leaving home: each inhalation a mix of familiarity and fear.
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I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real.
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I was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.
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Christendom has often achieved apparent success by ignoring the precepts of its founder.
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What I thought I developed all of those years ago was a pattern to understand communication.
