Simon Sinek Quotes

There is a difference between giving directions and giving direction.

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• Congress seems to be very good at doing nothing.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Good
  • Doing
  • Nothing

• I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around people who have been hustling from the start, so I think I've got a bright little future ahead of me - especially if I don't fight. Why would I want to go out there and fight with somebody, get my face punched and kicked. It's not my idea of a good time.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow. The search for sustainable solutions is an economic and a moral imperative if we are to create the future we want.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Future
  • Moral

• Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Home
  • Independent
  • Television

• Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Eighth

• Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Good
  • Single
  • Day

• The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Age
  • Wisdom
  • Grow

• The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Political
  • Culture
  • City

• I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Money
  • Never
  • Save

• I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Experience
  • Poetry
  • Speak

• People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.

  

  Ian Watson
  • People
  • Money
  • Business

• I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Different
  • Effect
  • Delightful

• If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • You
  • Die
  • Find

• I like to mix pieces in my art direction from the '60s or the '40s and the '90s and present-day stuff. To me, that feels very real. When I go into people's houses, it's not all today.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • People
  • Real
  • Art

• With 'Game of Thrones,' there are no real limitations.

  

  Nathalie Emmanuel
  • Real
  • Game
  • Limitations

• It's kind of a subversive act to tell a story of a woman past a certain age, to develop a four-hour movie based on a marriage and a story of two people past middle age.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Movie
  • Age

• Shell has poured billions of dollars into offshore Arctic drilling, but no matter how much it spends, it cannot make the effort anything but a terrifying gamble. And if Shell, the most profitable company on Earth, can't buy its way to safety in Alaska, nobody can.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Earth
  • Effort
  • Safety

• My mother always wanted to give back.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Mother
  • Always
  • Give

• The American tradition rests on pillars of self-questioning, self-actualization, and disagreement.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • American

• An orchestra can add some class, a historical vibe, but I believe you can get the same emotion from pottery wheels.

  

  Brian Reitzell
  • Believe

• I'd like to thank God for giving me the opportunity to sing with the greatest group in the world.

  

  Dennis Edwards The Temptations
  • World
  • God
  • Opportunity

• Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Thinking
  • Money
  • Business

• There is a difference between giving directions and giving direction.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Giving
  • Differences