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.
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The truth is, I just don't have the drive to be the prettiest and the thinnest. I can be happy for other people for their beauty.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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There are no rebels in the cinema business.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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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.
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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.
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Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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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.
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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My idol is Bea Arthur. I really tried to follow her example. She is one of my comedy 'she-roes.'
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I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.
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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.
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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.
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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.
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I am only a spark: Make me a fire.
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A witticism is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
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In the tiny torn up pieces of his mind he's irresistible too.
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A new regime would have become the United States’ responsibility. Conceivably, this could have led the United States into a more or less permanent occupation of a country that could not govern itself, but where the rule of a foreign occupier would be increasingly resented.
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Briefcases, like CEOs, should never look new and unused.
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A leader should not take credit when things go right if they are not willing to accept responsibility when things go wrong.
