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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Well, love motivates me in everything I do.
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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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Mr. Obama is particularly well positioned to challenge Hollywood because of his special relationship with the media world's elites. They might be more likely to heed criticism coming from Mr. Obama than from any other president or member of Congress.
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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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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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Wondering if God loves us when we're cheating? Oh, but why he lets us feel things, if it's wrong.
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I'm not going to be known as the Sinn Fein Minister who did the bidding of a Tory administration which is focused on decimating the welfare state.
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A lot of people think that fame is the Band-Aid that cures their ills. I'm no kid, and I knew long before I got famous that wasn't the deal. I'm the court jester, not the queen.
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Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail. We very often confuse personality with leadership. In other words, leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person.
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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.
