Simon Sinek Quotes
My challenge is to make sure the things I say and the things I do remain consistent for as often and as long as possible. My why is to inspire people to do the things that inspire them so that together we can change our world. That's why I wake up every single day. I'm agnostic to the form it takes: I teach, I write, I speak, I advise.
Quotes to Explore
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I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
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I was just doing my job in the ring and doing my best to make people happy.
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You do the policy, I'll do the politics.
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I never liked the men I loved and never loved the men I liked.
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When I realized that if I was an actor, I could be any character I wanted instead of just one particular, I was like, 'Wow, that's cool.'
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Contrary to the rumours that you've heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-El, to save the planet Earth.
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If we do not solve our civilizational crisis - a disintegrating culture, dying populations, and invasions unresisted - the children born in 2006 will witness in their lifetimes the death of the West. In our hearts we know what must be done. We must stop the invasion. But do our leaders have the vision and will to do it?
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I was ordered not to go out to Abu Ghraib after dark early on, because Abu Ghraib was extremely dangerous.
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Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake.
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If you really love stuffing, wait until the turkey comes out of the oven, add some of the pan drippings to the stuffing, and bake it in a dish. That's called dressing, and that's not evil - stuffing is, though.
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In mainstream literature, a trope is a figure of speech: metaphor, simile, irony, or the like. Words used other than literally. In SF, a trope - at least as I understand the usage - is more: science used other than literally.
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I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh.
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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
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I just said, 'I need to do something because staying up and watching YouTube and late night TV is not cool,' so I just decided to write a script.
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That's part of what a relationship is: you don't experience things in the same way.
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There is a growing scientific consensus that animals have emotions and feel pain. This awareness is going to effect change: better treatment of animals in agribusiness, research and our general interaction with them. It will change the way we eat, live and preserve the planet.
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One of Alaska's strengths is our pioneer role in environmentally sensitive development.
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I'm a slow starter, but it's time to flip on the switch.
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'Interview' created indelible images of Pop Art that arrived on people's doorsteps every month.
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It was cold and clammy in the stone cell; they called it the 'cooler,' and used it to reduce the temperature of the violent and intractable. It was a trouble-saving device; they just left the man there and forgot him, and his own tormented mind did the rest.
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One way to make a baby cry is to expose it to cries of other babies. There's sort of contagiousness to the crying. It's not just crying. We also know that if a baby sees another human in silent pain, it will distress the baby. It seems part of our very nature is to suffer at the suffering of others.
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If there's ever a vote for single-payer, I'm a 'yes.' But there are lots of things we can do in the meantime.
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My challenge is to make sure the things I say and the things I do remain consistent for as often and as long as possible. My why is to inspire people to do the things that inspire them so that together we can change our world. That's why I wake up every single day. I'm agnostic to the form it takes: I teach, I write, I speak, I advise.
