Simon Sinek Quotes

Remaining calm in times of desperation makes way for opportunity.

Simon Sinek

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• Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.

  

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  • Country
  • Place
  • Changes

• You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Up
  • You
  • First

• We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Black
  • Color
  • Censorship

• America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • America
  • Soul
  • Freedom

• I am not thinking that because people say I am great that I really am great. I am just doing a job, just like everybody else. The only difference is that a lot more people see what I do.

  

  Oded Fehr
  • People
  • Great
  • Thinking

• I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Always
  • Model
  • Lovely

• It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Red

• I love a modern suit paired with a polo or cotton T-shirt... and then paired with leather sneakers, or cashmere joggers with a tailored blazer and a sleeveless puffer vest to get the ultimate informal and formal combination.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli

• I want to help create the world's first global currency built on the Internet and built on open platforms and standards such as Bitcoin, and I want to build a financial services institution on top of that. That's what I'm doing with Circle.

  

  Jeremy Allaire
  • World
  • Help
  • Financial

• The world is undoubtedly a safer, freer place because Thatcher - like Reagan - refused to back down when it came to defending freedom.

  

  Bob Barr
  • World
  • Freedom

• Auctions create greater price discovery and liquidity, resulting in a very meaningful final auction price. If you were building a securities exchange today, an auction would be a core feature.

  

  Tyler Winklevoss
  • Today
  • Meaningful

• Each day, we have the opportunity to learn something new, apologize for our mistakes, and become better.

  

  Lewis Howes
  • Opportunity

• I didn't get into the music business because somebody made me take piano lessons, you know. I got into music because I was a natural writer and had a lot of curiosity about sound.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • Music
  • Business
  • Curiosity

• It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director with the band. Charlie Parker was in the band. But, no, no, that was my band.

  

  Billy Eckstine
  • Band

• I have major sleeping problems. I'd rather be up thinking about things than actually sleeping.

  

  Jared Kushner
  • Up
  • Thinking

• If I train well and stay focused, I'm confident I can deliver when the time comes.

  

  Ashley Wagner
  • Time

• I hate to plan my life.

  

  Alessandro Michele
  • Life
  • Hate

• The relationship between art and a job is not quite linear, but I really love any and all manifestations of art, really respect any kind of artistic impulse, whether it's paintings and sculptures or really good filmmaking or music. I really see the relationships between these different mediums as very fluid.

  

  Lily Cole
  • Good
  • Music
  • Different

• The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • People
  • Believe
  • Amazing

• You'd be surprised the type of people who are into metal when you see them. Sometimes I'm even surprised, but it's cool. That's the reason it's still around.

  

  Glenn Danzig
  • Reason
  • Around
  • Metal

• Theatre is all about the process and the sense of community that is created. You have weeks of rehearsal, time to explore your character and get to know the other actors. There is opportunity to try off-the-wall ideas, to find layers and nuance over weeks. You become like a second family with your cast.

  

  Dan Amboyer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Character

• Remember, the greater the opportunity, the fewer are those who see it.

  

  James Cook
  • Remember
  • Opportunity
  • Fewer

• I would say that he has a rather limited and uncreative way of looking at the situation.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Way
  • Situation

• Remaining calm in times of desperation makes way for opportunity.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Way
  • Opportunity
  • Calm