Simon Sinek Quotes

Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.

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• The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.

  

  Patricia Birch
  • Time
  • Film
  • Goal

• 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.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Economy
  • More
  • Workers

• I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Never

• 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.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Think
  • Years
  • Young

• French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • People
  • Love
  • Chocolate

• The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Freedom
  • Explore
  • Tradition

• 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.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • People
  • America
  • Hope

• 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.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Beautiful
  • Black
  • Chicago

• 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.

  

  Washed Out
  • Live
  • Kind
  • Impossible

• Good reporting should have the same standard as in a courtroom - beyond a reasonable doubt.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Good
  • Doubt
  • Beyond

• I try to just be the person I am, with a lot of sensitivity to the genre in which I'm playing.

  

  Edgar Meyer
  • Person
  • Playing
  • Genre

• In L.A., you tend to see a lot of people do very bizarre things. I love it.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • People
  • Things
  • See

• 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?

  

  Becki Newton
  • Work
  • Funny
  • Husband

• Every gesture is a revolutionary act.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• Nothing is more real than nothing.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Real

• It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • 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.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Fear
  • Courage
  • Brave

• I'm a professional wrestler at heart, and I miss it.

  

  Dave Bautista
  • Heart
  • Professional

• The film Wyatt Earp and the Holy Grail was shot on a KODAK Zi8 camera as well as on multiple camera phones. It was processed using the effects of FINAL CUT X and then edited in FINAL CUT 7.

  

  Evan Jacobs
  • Camera
  • Effects
  • Holy Grail

• I don't go out of my way to be friendly, because it's completely unnecessary. People tell you what they are going to tell you no matter what.

  

  Janet Malcolm
  • People

• The everlasting and paternal wisdom saith, 'Whoso heareth Me is not ashamed.' If he is ashamed of anything he is ashamed of being ashamed. Whoso worketh in Me sineth not. Whoso confesseth Me and feareth Me, shall have eternal life. Whoso will hear the wisdom of the Father must dwell deep, and abide at home, and be at unity with himself.

  

  Meister Eckhart
  • Life
  • Home
  • Father

• In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.

  

  Epictetus
  • Real
  • Death
  • Action

• Hope has power only when married to personal action.

  

  Bill Willingham
  • Hope
  • Action
  • Married

• Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Action
  • Guarding