Simon Sinek Quotes

Knowledge is understanding based on what has been studied and learned. Wisdom is understanding based on what has been felt and experienced.

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• I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they made sure education came before anything. I had a good childhood, grew up spending time with my bigger brothers and sisters. My people are good people. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of people and culture.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Heart
  • You
  • Strength

• Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Human
  • For Her

• Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Life
  • Good
  • Music

• I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.

  

  Adam Giles
  • Years
  • Bakery
  • Pastry

• The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Experience
  • You
  • Taken

• The food in south India is the food that I really love because it reminds me of home.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • Love
  • Home
  • Food

• One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Age
  • Problem
  • Patience

• In some ways, the best novel about terrorism, though it's not a novel, is 'The Looming Tower' by Lawrence Wright or 'Perfect Soldiers' by Terry McDermott.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Perfect
  • Best
  • Terrorism

• The first thing I do is I check my emails and my texts. I guess I shouldn't feel guilty about it at this point; it's kind of the norm. Sometimes I'll bounce around Twitter. And if I have time, I'll catch up on the news, usually on 'Huffington Post' or 'Salon.'

  

  Randall Park
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kind

• I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Kids
  • College
  • Baseball

• The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Society
  • Imagination
  • Human

• Once you accept that we're all imperfect, it's the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • World
  • Mistakes
  • Making Mistakes

• I'm not saying that all college students are subhuman - I'm just saying that if you aim to spend a few years mastering the art of pomposity, these are places where you can be taught by undisputed experts.

  

  Lester Bangs
  • Art
  • College

• I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • People
  • Experience
  • Feeling

• If we do not play 'Alabama,' our fans would kill us.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd

• Most of what one feels compelled to write stems from a deep emotional uncertainty.

  

  Antonya Nelson
  • Deep
  • Emotional

• You know, your first album is about really amazing things. Your first album is always about coming of age, first love, first loss, usually you suffer a first loss of someone that you love to death, even, you know, really big life lessons, things you learn from your parents' divorce or from the travels that you took.

  

  Brandi Carlile
  • Life
  • Age
  • Death

• Ἢ οὐκ οἶσθ' ἀκριβῶς ὢν περισσόφρων ὅτιγλώσσῃ ματαίᾳ ζημία προστρίβεται.

  

  Aeschylus

• Food-wise, I'm trying to eat a lot of fruits. I take vitamin pills. For me, that's helpful. Luckily, if I don't go to the gym for two weeks, I'm not feeling it yet, but everybody is warning me, 'Just wait a few more years. You'll feel it.'

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Trying
  • Feeling
  • Food

• You are the single biggest influence in your life.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Single
  • Influence

• I have always just made things. I don't see what I make as being defined by a medium or aesthetic. It probably comes more from a fundamental restlessness, an attempt to create tools for questioning or understanding, and I have always been interested in using a wide spectrum of mediums to do this.

  

  Doug Aitken
  • Understanding
  • Aesthetic

• The very essence of school is elitism. Schools exist to teach, to test, to rank hierarchically to promote the idea that knowing and understanding more is better than knowing and understanding less.

  

  William A. Henry III
  • School
  • Understanding
  • Knowing

• Knowledge is understanding based on what has been studied and learned. Wisdom is understanding based on what has been felt and experienced.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Understanding
  • Felt