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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In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
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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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Everybody has a job to do, and you just know that every day you have to do what it takes to get there. Of course, everybody has those days where you don't feel like doing it. I'm just like anybody else in that respect. But there's a difference between not feeling like doing it and not doing it period.
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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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Dad somewhat enjoyed being called gay. He said it made women want to prove the assertion wrong.
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The technical side of things is invaluable, but that side of the process should be unconscious. Your technical abilities should just allow your brain to just flow. And to be in a flow of creation at all times.
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I finally chalked it up to the fact that the brain is truly an extraordinary device: more extraordinary than we can even guess.
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I've got bowlegs, so if I do a midcalf look, I look bandy.
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Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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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.
