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Simon Sinek: Authenticity

“Authenticity is more than speaking. Authenticity is also about doing. Every decision we make says something about who we are.” —Simon Sinek.
Harvey S Firestone: Narrow perspective

“I notice that when all a man’s information is confined to the field in which he is working, the work is never as good as it ought to be. A man has to get a perspective, and he can get it from books or from people — preferably from both. This thing of sleeping and…
Gerald Durrell: Habitat

“You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or destroy that habitat and you will exterminate the species as surely as if you had shot it. So conservation means that you have to preserve forest and grassland, river and lake, even the sea itself.…
Kahlil Gibran: Lust for comfort

“The lust for comfort murders the passions of the soul.” —Kahlil Gibran.
Simon Sinek: Mature companies

“Mature companies fail because they forget why they were born. “ —Simon Sinek.
Simon Sinek: Networking

“The true value of networking doesn’t come from how many people we can meet, but rather how many people we can introduce to others.” —Simon Sinek.
Simon Sinek: No right or wrong time

“There’s no right or wrong time. Better now than later and better late than never.” —Simon Sinek.
J R R Tolkien: Live dragon

“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. -J.R.R. Tolkien.
Henri Matisse: Never be a prisoner

“An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.” —Henri Matisse.
Simon Sinek: The new, the old

“The new is threatening to those benefit from the old.” —Simon Sinek.
Sinon Sinek: Without selling out

“We can sell without selling out.” —Simon Sinek.
Louis Pasteur: When I approach a child

“When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.” —Louis Pasteur.
Sinon Sinek: Hearing and listening

“Hearing is listening to what’s said. Listening is hearing what isn’t said.” —Simon Sinek.
Charles de Lint: See the stories

“No one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.” —Charles de Lint.
Simon Sinek: Look ahead

“Optimists focus on the place they are going. Pessimists focus on the obstacles along the route. To become an optimist, simply look ahead.”
Susanne Langer: Whole world of new questions

“If we would have new knowledge, we must get us a whole world of new questions.” —-Susanne Langer.
Simon Sinek: No need for teams

“We can’t be good at everything. If we were, there would be no need for teams.” —Simon Sinek.
Simon Sinek: Open doors

“When we try to keep all the doors open, for fear we walk through the wrong one, we may end up having all the doors closed on us. ” —Simon Sinek.
Margaret Mead: Change the world

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” —–Margaret Mead.
Edna O’Brien: Writing

“Writing is like carrying a fetus.”—-Edna O’Brien.
Sinon Sinek: Contribute

“Don’t complain. Contribute.” —Simon Sinek.
Simon Sinek: When to break the rules

“We don’t trust people to follow the rules. We trust people to know when to break them.” –Simon Sinek.
John Milton: Reproach them for their blindness

“Those who put out the people’s eyes, reproach them for their blindness.” —John Milton
Noam Chomsky: Limits of debate

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum — even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system…
Jonathan Swift: All his opinions

If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning, etc., beginning from his youth and so go on to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last! -Jonathan Swift.
Steven Brust: Seek understanding

“To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called . Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.” —-Steven Brust.
George Wald: Learned small boy

“A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives.” —George Wald.
Simon Sinek: One sale

“Any success starts with one. One step. One client. One sale.” —Simon Sinek.
Joseph McCabe: Different reason

“An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason.” —Joseph McCabe.
Peter Weiss: Glorious victories

“Once and for all / the idea of glorious victories / won by the glorious army / must be wiped out / Neither side is glorious / On either side they’re just frightened men messing their pants / and they all want the same thing / Not to lie under the earth / but to…
Simon Sinek: Just cause

“A Just Cause should direct a business model, not the other way around.” —Simon Sinek.
Yaa Gyasi: Power

—Yaa Gyasi.
Yaa Gyasi: Family

“The family is like the forest: if you are outside, it is dense; if you are inside you see that each tree has its own position.” —Yaa Gyasi.
Yaa Gyasi: Weakness and strength

“You want to know what weakness is? Weakness is treating someone as though they belong to you. Strength is knowing that everyone belongs to themselves. “ —Yaa Gyasi.
James Reston: Foreign affairs

“This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.” —James Reston.
Simon Sinek: Understand people, understand business

“If we don’t understand people, we don’t understand business.” —Simon Sinek.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux: Wisest man

“The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.” —Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux.
Simon Sinek: Infinite thinking

‘To ask, “What’s best for me?” is finite thinking. To ask, “What’s best for us?” is infinite thinking.’ —Simon Sinek.
Simon Sinek: Only if you are willing to learn

“Teach only if you are willing to learn.” —Simon Sinek.
Indra Nooyi: Focus on the job

“Focus on the job you’re doing, don’t focus on the next few jobs. Understand the company’s politics, but don’t play in the politics. And put your hand up for the toughest assignments. That’s when you’ll get noticed.” —Indra Nooyi.
Simon Sinek: Be an idealist

“Reality does its thing, so why help it? Be an idealist, see what happens.” —Simon Sinek.
Simon Sinek: Inspire

“If we manipulate people, they will give us exactly what we pay for. If we inspire people, they will give us more than we ask for.” —Simon Sinek.
Kamala Harris: Make sure you’re not the last

‘My mother used to tell me — she would tell my sister — my mother would look at me and she’d say, “Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you are not the last.” And that’s why breaking those barriers is worth it. As much as anything else, it…
Simon Sinek: Integrity

“If we say and do what we actually believe, everyone will know what we actually believe. (It’s a handy little thing called integrity.)” —Simon Sinek.
Logan Pearsall Smith: Devil’s traps for artists

“The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil’s traps for artists.” —Logan Pearsall Smith.
Friedrich Nietzsche: He who fights with monsters

“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” —-Friedrich Nietzsche.
Nida Fazli: Hell-bent

“Someone is Hindu, someone is Muslim, someone is Christian / Everyone is hell-bent on not becoming a human being.” —-Nida Fazli.
Eleanor Roosevelt: Mature person

“A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in…
Simon Sinek: Conversations

“Emails get reactions. Phone calls start conversations.” —Simon Sinek.
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Bacteria

“Within one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) than all humans who have ever been born. Yet many people continue to assert that it is we who are in charge of the world.” —-Neil deGrasse Tyson.