Simon Sinek Quotes

All organizations start with WHY, but only the great ones keep their WHY clear year after year.

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• All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Change

• I don't want to get too philosophical, but in a sense, you're given this gift, this sort of creative force in you, and I think everyone has it, and it's completely unique to you. And you as a person have a little bit of a responsibility as its shepherd if you choose to incorporate that into your life.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Life
  • Responsibility
  • Unique

• There are some movies you do for the character; there are some movies you do for the people.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • People
  • Character
  • Movies

• When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Work
  • Book
  • Lost

• To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

  

  Quintilian
  • Man
  • Swear
  • Honorable

• I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate.

  

  Fatou Bensouda
  • Country
  • Giving
  • Start

• Coming up with ideas is really hard - they don't spontaneously pop into my head while I'm cutting vegetables.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Up
  • Ideas
  • Cutting

• I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • Never
  • Story

• I like a little bit of revolution. I think it's a very good hobby for a young woman. Better than squash.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Good
  • Woman
  • Revolution

• Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Power

• I did tennis for a while, and I was actually on the volleyball team for a minute.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Team
  • Tennis
  • Volleyball

• I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Beginning
  • Understand
  • Moss

• When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.

  

  Ian Hart
  • You
  • Conflict
  • Teachers

• Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Education
  • Wise
  • Idiots

• The walking wounded, impaired in life and dissected in death, were our primary clues to where and how parts of the brain work.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Life
  • Work
  • Death

• Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.

  

  Vince Staples
  • Values
  • Your
  • Morals

• I really feel all my adult life has been spent in that little black box. If a wonderful part on TV came along I would do it. But I don't want to do a recurring role. It would just be my luck that the thing would be successful. I'm old enough now and also secure enough financially that I really only want to do what I want to do.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Life
  • Black
  • Successful

• For me, the work begins with a rough cut of the film. I can't do much with the script. I've tried to write music to a script prior to seeing the film, but I've found it turns out to be a waste of time.

  

  Cliff Martinez
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• Well we'd just seen Gerry. I think he wanted somebody who had that authority and was handsome. The thing is, he's a big hunk isn't he? All I can say, if you look at his chat line, or the Phantom website, it's quite worrying. Because the girls really seem to love him.

  

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

• Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Dinner
  • Table
  • Electricity

• It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years, without having a serious division.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Success
  • Change
  • Community

• Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening.

  

  Aretha Franklin
  • People
  • Music
  • Happened

• Large, centralized organizations foster alienation like stagnant ponds breed algae.

  

  Ricardo Semler
  • Organization
  • Alienation
  • Ponds

• All organizations start with WHY, but only the great ones keep their WHY clear year after year.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Years
  • Organization
  • Clear