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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It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.
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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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I would like for people to hear my music and hear/realize that people and experiences are deeper than what's at face value. Hopefully, with the span of my career, I can try to convey that in more ways than one.
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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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When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.
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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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You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.
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Walk up and down the stairs ten times a day. Do an hour's walking. Release toxins just so that you feel happy. Drink a lot of water; sleep on time.
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It's true that youth is wasted on the young and, if I had my life to live over again, I suppose I would pay more attention to my career. I would make better choices. But, in my defence, I would say that I have three wonderful children, and that's something I am very proud of.
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Small events and choices determine the direction of our lives just as small helms determine the directions of great ships.
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There he is, tall, tanned, Italian, sophisticated. So what do you do?" I said, "Er, leap on him and snog him within an inch of his life? Taking care not to strangle myself on his false beard, or disturb his banana.
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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.
