Simon Sinek Quotes
Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.
Quotes to Explore
-
The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.
-
To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
-
I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
-
As far as viewpoints, I think I'm more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably more hopeful than I used to be. I think when you're young and you get into a cause, you get frustrated with it within a few years, or six months.
-
French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
-
The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.
-
For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
-
Well, my piano's really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the '60s that's blond, wood, and black, and I also have one from the '20s from Chicago - not a well-known brand or anything.
-
There are things I can accomplish in the studio via manipulation on the computer or some kind of effect that are nearly impossible to do live. On the flip side, there are some things that happen live that can't be pulled off in the studio.
-
Good reporting should have the same standard as in a courtroom - beyond a reasonable doubt.
-
I try to just be the person I am, with a lot of sensitivity to the genre in which I'm playing.
-
In L.A., you tend to see a lot of people do very bizarre things. I love it.
-
When I read the 'Ugly Betty' pilot, I thought, 'Oh, this part's funny.' I said to my husband, 'I'm going to get it!' But based on what? All my exquisite comedic work in a Nike commercial?
-
Every gesture is a revolutionary act.
-
Nothing is more real than nothing.
-
It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
-
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
-
I'm a professional wrestler at heart, and I miss it.
-
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.
-
People who hadn't noticed me, or who had written me off as a game show host, started to reassess me. There were people who hadn't seen me as a stand-up artist and liked it. Suddenly I was in fashion again.
-
Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
-
Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action.
-
Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.
