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Simon Sinek: Conversation starts with listening
“Any worthwhile conversation starts with listening.” —Simon Sinek.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau: Wisdom
“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?” —Jean Jacques Rousseau.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau: Right to risk his own life
“Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?” —Jean Jacques Rousseau.
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Isabelle Adjani: Choose persons worthy
“In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don’t keep them.” —Isabelle Adjani.
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Robert Davi: Journeys into inner psyches
“Great storytellers in the past would go to an unknown land and return to tell the stories they’ve found. Those were also journeys into their inner psyches and that’s still true today. An actor, a writer, does that as if saying, ‘Here’s what I’ve discovered about myself and about the world I’m in. I would…
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Simon Sinek: Begetting
“Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.” —Simon Sinek.
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George Orwell: Lunacy
“What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?” —George Orwell.
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Simon Sinek: Lead it
“The selfish fear change. The selfless lead it.” —Simon Sinek.
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Nancy Allen: The more you work with anyone
“The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.” —Nancy Allen.
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Simon Sinek: Heart must be won
“The mind can be convinced, but the heart must be won.” —Simon Sinek.
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Richard Bach: Simplest questions
“The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.” —-Richard Bach.
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Giambattista Vico:Common sense
“Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.” —Giambattista Vico.
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Him that I love
“Him that I love, I wish to be free — even from me.” —-Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
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Meryl Streep: Empathy
“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.” —Meryl Streep.
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Simon Sinek: Growth
“Growth is a result, not a cause.” —Simon Sinek.
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Jean-Paul Sartre: Value is the meaning you choose
“Life has no meaning a priori. … It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.” —Jean-Paul Sartre.
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Francoise Sagan: Illusion of art
“Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.” —Francoise Sagan.
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Andrei Alexandrescu: Multithreading
“Multithreading is just one damn thing after, before, or simultaneous with another.” –Andrei Alexandrescu.
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Lillian Hellman: Truth
“Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.” —Lillian Hellman.
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Salman Rushdie: Freedom of speech
“One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.” —Salman Rushdie.
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Simon Sinek: Not a complicated formula
“If we’re nice to people, people are nice back. It’s not a complicated formula.” —Simon Sinek.
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Roger Ebert: God isn’t going to change his mind
“The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can’t change your mind, because God sure isn’t going to change His.” —-Roger Ebert.
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Paul McCartney: Weird
“I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn’t weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird.” —Paul McCartney.
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Simon Sinek: Away from our desks
“The best place to invent the future is away from our desks.” —Simon Sinek.
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Igor Stravinsky: Work brings inspiration
“Just as appetite comes by eating so work brings inspiration.” —-Igor Stravinsky.
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Simon Sinek: Entrepreneurial adventure
“Forgo the entrepreneurial venture for an entrepreneurial adventure. Ventures only succeed if we make money. Adventures succeed regardless.” —Simon Sinek.
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Deb Caletti: Shifting viewpoint
“All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because we’re liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that.” —Deb Caletti.
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Simon Sinek: True courage
“True courage is having the strength to admit our weaknesses.” —Simon Sinek.
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Louis L’Amour: Why are you writing so fast?
“One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter — who was a child at the time — asked me, “Daddy, why are you writing so fast?” And I replied, “Because I want to see how the story turns out!” —Louis L’Amour.
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John Steinbeck: Produce of the second
“It has always seemed strange to me…The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they…
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Simon Sinek: Focus
“Focus on money and you will make money. Focus on impact and you will make an impact.” —Simon Sinek.
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Helen Hunt Jackson: Bosoms of their families
“There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families.” —Helen Hunt Jackson.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Bitterest tears
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.” —-Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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Che Guevara: Cruel leaders
“Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.” —Che Guevara.
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Tim Allen: Work or prison
“Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we’ve always had: work, or prison.” —-Tim Allen.
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Uta Hagen: Overcome the notion
“We must overcome the notion that we must be regular… it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.” —Uta Hagen.
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Ingrid Newkirk: Rat, pig, boy, dog
“When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.” —Ingrid Newkirk.
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Jacques Cousteau: We are human beings
“If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.” —Jacques Cousteau.
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Simon Sinek: Faith
“Faith is knowing we are on a team and accepting that we don’t know who the other players are.” —Simon Sinek.
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E O Wilson: Destroying rainforests
“[Destroying rainforests for economic gain] is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.” —E.O. Wilson.
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Maurice Sendak: Mothers and children
“Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.” —Maurice Sendak.
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Simon Sinek: Listening
“Listening isn’t simply hearing the words. Listening is hearing the meaning behind the words.” —Simon Sinek.
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Simon Sinek: No shortage of causes
“There is no shortage of causes in this world, just a shortage of leaders who can inspire us to pursue them.” —Simon Sinek.
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Johnny Depp: Oxymoron
“The term ‘serious actor’ is kind of an oxymoron, isn’t it? Like ‘Republican party’ or ‘airplane food.’” —Johnny Depp.
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Frank Lloyd Wright: Janitors
“Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.” —Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Simon Sinek: Be yourself
When in doubt, be yourself. —Simon Sinek.
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Tim Berners-Lee: Private life
“Celebrity damages private life.” —-Tim Berners-Lee.
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Nikki Giovanni: Always something to do
“There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don’t expect you to save the world, I do think it’s not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those…
