Simon Sinek Quotes
We think leadership is about rank and power, but better to think of leadership as the responsibility for other human beings. That leadership and rank may not go together. So it manifests in this remarkable way.
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.
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When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.
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I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.
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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
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What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.
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When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe. And I think that's a really dangerous, limiting mindset.
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I think what has helped me is that I've never thought of myself as a child star. If you think of yourself like that, you might have problems!
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.
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'Posh' is not really political. I didn't want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bash Old Etonians. It was always the class and privilege aspect of that world that I was most drawn to. There is something endlessly fascinating about imagining something you could never be involved in.
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Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
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Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.
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Something on mainstream radio is very in your face with the vocals. I tried that, and it just doesn't feel like Washed Out. It's got to have that haziness to it.
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I went to an all-girls school, and I always felt like I missed out on a traditional high-school life.
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The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life from the time I was fifteen to the time I was twenty.
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The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.
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To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long. So even if we agree that sexual imagery is in fact a language, it is clearly one that is already heavily edited to protect men’s sexual-and hence social-confidence while undermining that of women.
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I read 'Animal Farm' when I was 11, and it remained my favorite book, really.
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My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
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The more our children see men being paid to take responsibility for children, the more respectable it will be for men to do work compatible with their role as dads.
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Our literature, despite several false starts that promised much, is chiefly remarkable, now as always, for its respectable mediocrity.
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We think leadership is about rank and power, but better to think of leadership as the responsibility for other human beings. That leadership and rank may not go together. So it manifests in this remarkable way.
