Simon Sinek Quotes

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• I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Action

• I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Done
  • Comedy
  • Always

• An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Society
  • Intellectual
  • Call

• The differences between a tart, a pie and a quiche are a blur.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Differences
  • Pie
  • Blur

• I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Life
  • God
  • Success

• I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Hand
  • Myself
  • Write

• The Premier League is very difficult football and very different to when you play in Europe, but the player has to have experience to adapt, and this is the key point.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Football

• I have nothing but contempt for Gadhafi. I'm not a Gadhafi supporter in any way. However, it's not clear to me that it's a vital and compelling national security objective of the United States that we ought to use military force to remove him from power. He's not the only unpleasant and unsavory dictator in the world.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • World
  • Power
  • Me

• Basically, I'm a free spirit. I'm kind of an Everywoman.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Free
  • Kind
  • Free Spirit

• You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don't know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • True
  • End
  • Honor

• Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Moving
  • Tree
  • Christmas

• Big stories need human stakes.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Human
  • Need
  • Big

• Elimination race is my thing. I really enjoy that event.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Enjoy
  • Race
  • Event

• Charlie Rangel was writing laws on our taxes as chair of the Ways and Means Committee while somehow neglecting to pay his own.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Writing
  • Laws
  • Taxes

• I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Time
  • Stronger
  • Treasure

• I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Responsibility
  • Moral
  • Wise

• There is part of a structure in which every species is related to every other species. And they're built up on species, like a pyramid. The simpler cell organisms, and then the more complicated ones, all the way up to the mammals and birds and so forth. We call it 'developing upward'... The whole thing depends on every part of it. And we're taking out the stones from the pyramid.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Up
  • Part
  • Species

• The information revolution has changed wealth. Intellectual capital is far more important than money.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • Important
  • Money
  • Revolution

• I think I need to continue to think and plan and marry all of the different things that we could do that make transportation in space from the earth to the space station, from the earth to the moon to space stations around the moon to visiting an asteroid.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Different
  • Earth
  • Space

• My own brand will stand or fall because of me. Dior won't fall if I fall. It will also still stand if I'm not there. I'm coming in there, and it's like a – I don't know the English word – like a passage.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Fall
  • English
  • Word

• I don't plot with huge detail, just big moments and important elements, and then I have a structure but can fly by the seat of my pants when I write.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Important
  • Moments
  • Fly

• At the conscious approach of death, faith in the Biblical Religion, with its God and Christ and written Revelation, never weakens, but almost or quite always strengthens, and very often advances to a splendid assurance; while unbelief under the same circumstances never strengthens, but almost or quite always weakens and falters, and very often fails utterly.

  

  Enoch Fitch Burr
  • God
  • Death
  • Faith

• A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Stories
  • Size
  • Blade

• Stories are attempts to share our values and beliefs. Storytelling is worthwhile when it tells what we stand for.

  

  Simon Sinek
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