Together Is Better Simon Sinek Quotes & Sayings

We think leadership is about rank and power, but better to think of leadership as the responsibility for other human beings. That leadership and rank may not go together. So it manifests in this remarkable way. — Simon Sinek

Deception is nowhere more common than in religion. And the persons most easily and damningly deceived are the leaders. Those who deceive others are first themselves deceived, for not many, I think, begin with evil intent. The devil, after all, is a spiritual being. His usual mode of temptation is not an obvious evil but to an apparent good. The commonest forms of devil-inspired worship do not take place furtively at black masses with decapitated cats but flourish under the bright lights of acclaim and glory, in a swirl of organ music. — Eugene H. Peterson

So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

The astonishment soon passed off, the scales seemed to drop from his eyes, and the book became at once and for ever to him the great human and divine book, and the men and women, whom he had looked upon as something quite different from himself, became his friends and counsellors. — Thomas Hughes

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr. — Nazr Mohammed

I once wrestled with an angel. He won, but I learned a few things. — Arturo Perez-Reverte

My regular school didn't know what to do with me! — Julia Stiles

But my subconscious mind
the part I've heard writers call the lizard brain
could and did: it told me to reach for Anne Lamott or Edith Wharton or Calvin Trillin instead. And if I've learned one thing in my decades on earth, it's this: Don't argue with your lizard brain; it knows you better than you know yourself. — Sara Nelson

I told you stories to give you wings, Raami, so that you would never be trapped by anything-your name, your title, the limits of your body, this world's suffering — Vaddey Ratner

It was a sin to break a deathbed promise.
Arin left without making one. — Marie Rutkoski

She said people on hard times deserved to have beauty in their lives as much as anyone else, whether or not they could pay their rent or were walking to a breadline. Granny said that just because someone was poor didn't mean they were poor of heart. — Pam Munoz Ryan

The castle in the heights I thought I could not aspire to could so easily be mine now that I don't need it, I've already got my own paradise. — Jay Woodman

When the 'Book of Mormon' was first published, some of those who believed in it taught it to others and testified of it. — Gordon B. Hinckley

The Satisfactions of the Mad Farmer ... the quiet in the woods of a summer morning, the voice of a pewee passing through it like a tight silver wire; ... — Wendell Berry