Simon Sinek Quotes
Stories are our attempts to share our values & beliefs with the hopes that we may attract those who believe what we believe. This is the basis of forming a trusting relationship. Story telling, therefor, is only worthwhile when it tells what you stand for, not what you do.
Quotes to Explore
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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I'd been brought up on musicals. Instead of cartoons, we watched videocassettes of musicals at home.
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I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.
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We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere.
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Faith Hill is a big role model.
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I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.
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When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.
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It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it, George got closer and closer and closer with that camera - he was practically up my nose for the final shot. So I knew it was a moment that I had to do my best to get right.
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I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry.
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I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.
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I love reality. I love the world. I love the smell of it. I love it.
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An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
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And I did Batman, too. I did Mr. Freeze. I get more mail for him than anything I've ever done.
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Although most Americans apparently loathe inflation, Yale economists have argued that a little inflation may be necessary to grease the wheels of the labor market and enable efficiency-enhancing changes in relative pay to occur without requiring nominal wage cuts by workers.
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Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.
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I find teenage girls endlessly funny.
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When Jackie Kennedy wanted to wear her favourite European designers, she was told no. She had to start working with brands like Adolfo, who had to create Chanel knock-offs because that's what she wanted to wear.
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I've never wanted to name an album from a song title if I could avoid it because I like it to be a body of work.
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But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.
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No one is more keen than me to see the Hunting Act repealed, because I believe in the management of wildlife.
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I love athletics. As an athlete, I like to believe I can still do the things I used to do when I was once young.
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The thing was always, as every story you write has a built-in problem, was: Was it too personal. That was the thing I wondered about for a long time. Oddly enough, it's often the personal stuff that people come up to you later and say about it, 'I can't believe you put that in a movie. That happened to me.' And sometimes, the thing that you make up happened to no one.
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Stories are our attempts to share our values & beliefs with the hopes that we may attract those who believe what we believe. This is the basis of forming a trusting relationship. Story telling, therefor, is only worthwhile when it tells what you stand for, not what you do.
