Simon Sinek Quotes
I need an army. I need people out there who are either preaching with me to different audiences that I can't get to or who are implementing the work and helping people actually learn their why or practice their why or implement their why because I don't do that.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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I love the intimacy of venues like the House of Blues. When everyone is packed in and so close to you, it makes you play differently. It's so much more fun to play because there's so much more high energy in a place like that.
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I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting.
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Speed is the No. 1 thing. Our core competency has been doing exactly this: buying companies and integrating them quickly.
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The great seats of power tend to be wide and open, not vertical and soaring. Red Square, Tiananmen Square, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin - all massive but with large open spaces that project an image of might.
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We have to do our best to uphold in our own lives the values that they were prepared to die for. We have to honor those who carry forward that legacy, recognizing that people cannot live in freedom unless free people are prepared to die for it.
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Mes amis, l’amour est cent fois meilleur que la haine. L’espoir est meilleur que la peur. L’optimisme est meilleur que le désespoir. Alors aimons, gardons espoir et restons optimistes. Et nous changerons le monde.
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When you're tied to one show, you are very much at the mercy of the writers, so you can suddenly get a script where you have a heart attack and die.
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We have 35 different criteria when deciding on the location of a data centre. Tax is one of them.
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I wasn't making it with the violin because I was playing all of the 'long hair' stuff.
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I write emotional music.
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I love, when I feel challenged, to step up to my highest capacity.
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I remember when people called Facebook a fad.
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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.
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There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie.
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I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'
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We evaluate all business decisions based on how we can best serve public school teachers and their students.
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When I got to Chicago I had to find my way.
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I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the level I want to be at when I'm writing. Writing is much more intellectual and indirect and abstract, in a way.
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Belief is thought at rest.
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Thankfully I have a fan base that wants to see me, so I really enjoy creating music that is different.
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I need an army. I need people out there who are either preaching with me to different audiences that I can't get to or who are implementing the work and helping people actually learn their why or practice their why or implement their why because I don't do that.
