Simon Sinek Quotes

Like the rest of the genetic lottery, beauty is unfair. Everyone falls short of perfection, but some are luckier than others. Real confidence requires self-knowledge, which includes recognizing one's shortcomings as well as one's strengths.

The real way I became a model is I won a genetic lottery, and I became the recipient of a legacy.

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

I have no patience with the hypothesis occasionally expressed, and often implied, especially in tales written to teach children to be good, that babies are born pretty much alike, and that the sole agencies in creating differences between boy and boy, and man and man, are steady application and moral effort. It is in the most unqualified manner that I object to pretensions of natural equality. The experiences of the nursery, the school, the University, and of professional careers, are a chain of proofs to the contrary.

I'm lucky: I've got great photogenic eyes. You're up and running if you've got that and one brain cell to attach it to.

Some people prefer a world where we're all equally talented in everything. Whether you prefer that world or not, I don't think that world exists.

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting.

If someone thinks I'm posh, it just shows how lowly they are. Some people think I went to Eton. I'm far too stupid to get into Eton.

You can’t get intelligence by sitting and saying nothing.

In the intelligence business you are almost never completely wrong or completely right.

Intelligence always carries uncertainties. That is the nature of the beast.

Beauty is a gift, just like good health or intelligence. The only thing is not to be proud of being beautiful. Because you didn't do anything - it was given to you.

I'm not as stupid as some people think. I've got a degree in law.

At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, 'cause it was never gonna happen. We can't all be brainy, can we? That's just the way the world is.

There are some people who were born with good timing, and I think my comic timing is pretty solid.

It is possible that by studying autism we'll learn about the nature of talent. Supposedly there's no connection between scientific talent and autism, but if we look closely, we find a very basic connection.

I've really been extremely lucky. Some people work just as hard, are just as intelligent, and they don't get their breaks. I've just gotten the breaks. Maybe it's good karma.

My son is a better actor than me, only I was luckier.

I'm not sure a pretty and stupid man might be the key to a happy relationship.

Let's be honest, some people are better suited to exams than others in the same way that some of us are more sporty or arty.

People all want and need different emotional responses - some people like to be talked down when they're angry; some people want to be left alone.

I would never marry a stupid man. Someone who argues, someone who fights, I cannot stand that.

As I have often said, I would rather be lucky than smart! But it is even better to be lucky and super smart!

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.