Simon Sinek Quotes

When you explain to people what you're trying to do, as opposed to just making demands or delegating tasks, you can build instant trust, even if it's just for that short time you're on the phone.

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• We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
  • Want
  • End

• I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Love
  • Think
  • Clothes

• Just now, Christianity is in the ascendant. Buddhism and Taoism are decadent; their influence cannot long hold its own. Buddhism has long since passed its meridian; Taoism has only demons, not gods.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Long
  • Influence
  • Demons

• Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Why
  • Society

• Film and TV and stuff like that was something that I wanted to do when I was really, really little; like, I remember I used to do these plays with my cousins. We used to do Michael Jackson performances, and I would be Michael.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Remember
  • Film
  • Cousins

• I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that I would, of course, still be closeted but that I would work very hard for gay rights. It would be totally dishonorable, being gay, not to do that. So I had that as kind of a secondary agenda.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Work
  • Day
  • Gay

• I lived in Paris for six months when I was sixteen. It was a fend-for-yourself environment.

  

  Beau Garrett
  • Environment
  • Paris
  • Lived

• Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Love
  • Clothes
  • Luxury

• I'm not from a political family and didn't grow up dreaming of being George Washington. I started working in 8th grade and have held every odd job possible - working in a gravel pit, weighing big wheelers, ticket sales, data base management - but I knew if I worked hard and got experience, I could apply that experience to my next endeavor.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Up
  • Family
  • Experience

• Roughing it builds a boy's character, but only certain kinds of roughing it.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Character
  • Boy

• I like to cook; it is, for me, a happy combination of mindlessness and purpose.

  

  Paula Fox
  • Happy
  • Purpose

• I live for what I haven't done.

  

  Donna Karan
  • Live
  • Done

• In the kind of films that I do, there is an extremely limited number of people that can improvise. The reason the ensemble continues in the movies is because those are the people that can do that kind of work. It's not just an accident those people are in the film.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • People
  • Work

• The planet's resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably.

  

  Alain Ducasse

• When I was told that I was being offered a role in 'Miss Julie,' I already knew I wanted to do it.

  

  Logan Marshall-Green

• L.A. is the opposite of Britain in a lot of respects, and that's what draws so many British people here.

  

  Louis Theroux
  • People

• Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.

  

  Marilyn Hacker
  • Writing
  • Study
  • Literature

• The same way I want them to take me seriously. I want them to look at my music as kind of like an open book to who I am inside.

  

  Kaci Brown
  • Music
  • Book
  • Looks

• You can accomplish so many things with a negative outlook and low self-esteem if you just do it over and over and over again.

  

  Lela Loren

• If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.

  

  George Gurdjieff
  • Friends
  • Faith

• If I get noticed for my individual performance, that's what happens. Other than that, I'm just trying to win the game.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Trying
  • Game

• I'm really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Trying
  • Age
  • Moral

• When you explain to people what you're trying to do, as opposed to just making demands or delegating tasks, you can build instant trust, even if it's just for that short time you're on the phone.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Trying
  • Demand
  • Instant