Simon Sinek Quotes
Leadership is neither a rank nor a title. It is a choice. The choice to provide care and protection for those for whom we are responsible.
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Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
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We need to understand what innovation will be built on top of our networks.
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In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
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I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.
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If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.
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I wasn't a great debater.
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
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Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large competitors.
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Our experiences of the Solstice depends entirely upon where we are when it occurs. Neither Solstice encompasses everyone. Neither can. The Solstices stand forever opposed, literally at the two poles of our Earth and experiences.
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I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young - the books I read as a child have stayed with me my entire life - and yet, the people who write about books, for the most part, completely ignore children's literature.
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I only want my work to make people happy.
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Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.
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Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
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Some terror in the swishing tall grass seemed added to that of the diabolically pounding sea, and I started up crying aloud and disjointedly, 'Tiger? Tiger? Is it Tiger? Beast? Beast? Is it a Beast that I am afraid of?'
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A lot of actors, you can't get them to shut up. Instead of listening and watching, they're always telling you something.
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There is, of course, no larger mass hysteria in American history than the epidemic of racism.
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As recognized since ancient times, the coexistence of very rich and very poor leads to two possibilities, neither a happy one. The rich can rule alone, disenfranchising or even enslaving the poor, or the poor can rise up and confiscate the wealth of the rich.
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One actor in my life is enough, and that's me. With actors, it's too easy to go into this world of complaining. Someone will always be better, richer, more loved, do more work. Those dynamics don't interest me. The friends I hang out with, we create our own work rather than complain about acting.
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And all the time - such is the tragic comedy of our situation - we continue to clamor for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.
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Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won.
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It is very kind of you to consider the possibility of my working in Pasadena, an idea which certainly is attractive, especially since it would hold out the prospect of your cooperation or advice.
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Leadership is neither a rank nor a title. It is a choice. The choice to provide care and protection for those for whom we are responsible.
