Simon Sinek Quotes

The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven't figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, 'There's something fishy about you.'

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• When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Singing

• Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and esoteric systems are sometimes taken as evidence of derivation. The Islamic interpretation is that religion is of one origin, differences being due to local or historical causes.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Taken
  • Christian
  • Religious

• Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Littles
  • Rage
  • Fascism

• Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Passes

• Activity equals results. If you want to increase your success, increase your activity. Increase contact with customers. The more people you contact, the higher your sales will be because of the law of probabilities.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Success
  • Law

• The undiscovered is not far away. It's not something to be found eventually. It is contained within what is right in front of us. The essence of reality is being born right now. It has never existed before.

  

  H. E. Davey
  • Reality

• Cultivating inner discipline is something that takes time; expecting rapid results is simply a sign of impatience.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Time
  • Discipline

• I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Ethics

• I think one of the issues quite often, from a mental health perspective, that people find power behind a gun. Frequently, that is the issue behind most people. They feel a loss of power. They use a gun to sort of equalize things. And, of course, once the process begins, quite often people die in that process.

  

  Daayiee Abdullah
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Power

• Friendship is a thing most necessary to life, since without friends no one would choose to live, though possessed of all other advantages.

  

  Aristotle
  • Live
  • Friendship
  • Necessary

• Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

  

  William Cowper
  • Nature
  • Happiness
  • inspirational

• They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

  

  William Cowper
  • Truth
  • Wisdom
  • Weed

• No matter what, people don't think of me for glamorous parts. I'll go to an audition or a meeting in a pretty dress, and they still think of me as depressed or embattled. Hopefully, that will change.

  

  Viola Davis
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Glamorous

• In animation, there's silly things I get to do with my voice. I get to have a wider range, so my voice gets to dance more than it does on camera.

  

  Virginia Madsen
  • Silly
  • Doe
  • Cameras

• There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.

  

  Epictetus
  • Difficulty
  • Confess
  • Some Things

• There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Virtue
  • Compliment
  • Hypocrisy

• I always consider myself lucky that I can actually cry listening to some music.

  

  Itzhak Perlman
  • Music
  • Lucky
  • Cry

• If you're going to do a romantic comedy it was about housing it in something that we haven't seen before.

  

  George Clooney
  • Comedy
  • Havens
  • Housing

• The single best machine to measure trust is a human being. We haven't figured out a metric that works better than our own sort of, like, 'There's something fishy about you.'

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Humans
  • Machines
  • Havens