Simon Sinek Quotes

A leader should not take credit when things go right if they are not willing to accept responsibility when things go wrong.

Simon Sinek

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• The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • Social
  • Court
  • Supreme Court

• There are no rebels in the cinema business.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • Business
  • Cinema
  • Rebels

• Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Voice
  • Looking
  • Conscience

• If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Experience
  • Game
  • Running

• I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Business
  • Nature
  • Career

• Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Me
  • Reason
  • Batman

• I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Me
  • Walking
  • Bored

• The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Money
  • Age
  • Society

• I remember actually liking a girl in high school who was kind of an outcast and weird, and people made fun of her. I remember hanging out with her, but I was apprehensive about telling anyone I really liked her.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • People
  • School
  • Remember

• We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Great
  • Suffering
  • End

• If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.

  

  Barbara Hale
  • Up
  • Child
  • Grow

• My idol is Bea Arthur. I really tried to follow her example. She is one of my comedy 'she-roes.'

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Comedy
  • Example
  • Follow

• I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.

  

  Eddie Floyd
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Chance

• From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Die
  • Alive

• I never thought that I'd be dancing with Shia LaBeouf. When I heard he was going to be my partner, I was like, 'Does he even dance?' He doesn't, really, but he's such a sweet person.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Dance
  • Thought
  • Sweet

• Make it your profitable habit to carefully study facial expressions. You can see the entire human drama in a face; you can tell its owner's history.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • History
  • Study
  • Drama

• The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Good
  • Society
  • Talent

• I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.

  

  Alan Ball
  • People
  • Powerful

• Unlike Texas Rangers, we actors don't have a stop date, so I don't know about retiring. Sometimes I want to stop acting, but then you get a good script!

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Good
  • Stop
  • Texas

• Of this they drank half a pint every day, and sometimes more or less, as it operated, by way of gentle physic. Two others had each two oranges and one lemon given them every day. These they ate with greediness, at different times, upon an empty stomach.

  

  James Lind
  • Different

• Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

  

  Fanny Brice
  • World
  • Think
  • Know

• I had my daughter, and with that came a deep sense of responsibility; my time for work had become precious, and it had to have more meaning.

  

  Phoebe Philo
  • Time
  • Work
  • Responsibility

• We had some opportunities, we did not capitalize enough to get it done. But, give West Aurora credit. There were no easy opportunities.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Opportunity
  • Credit
  • Capitalize

• A leader should not take credit when things go right if they are not willing to accept responsibility when things go wrong.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Responsibility
  • Should
  • Leader