Chris Simon quote: "I've never seen it like this. Never . . . You've got to scratch for everything you get here. Claw. Bite. And it's going to come right down to the end. We know that. No nights off. There's no room for error."

To take a shot in the knee from a guy who's got one of the best, hardest, heaviest one-timers in the...
CHRIS SIMON

Dire times call for dire measures. We're going to cut in-service days. We're not spending more on te...
CHRIS SIMON

This was a huge road win,
CHRIS SIMON

It changed the way they learned music. It helped a huge amount.
CHRIS SIMON

Our number-one focus is winning one game. We know they're a good team and they beat us last time. Th...
CHRIS SIMON

Our (third and fourth line) is gonna be important, a big factor, especially when you play every othe...
CHRIS SIMON

We finally cracked it. It's an honor to reach that level of musicianship.
CHRIS SIMON

There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.
SIMON SINEK

Always the journey, never the destination.
SIMON RATTLE

The majority of my work is about preparation.
TARYN SIMON

I do seem to try to make things harder and harder for myself. In some perverse way, obstacles intere...
TARYN SIMON

My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.
TARYN SIMON

In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered ...
TARYN SIMON

I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answe...
TARYN SIMON

With 'The Simpsons,' people didn't know what they were gonna see. They didn't have a...
SAM SIMON

I'd rather be nauseous than tired, I think.
SAM SIMON

I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do t...
SAM SIMON

'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thoug...
SAM SIMON

I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
SAM SIMON

One of the things about animal rights, which is not the only thing that I care about in this world, ...
SAM SIMON

The truth is, I have more money than I'm interested in spending. Everyone in my family is taken ...
SAM SIMON

Work made me crazy. I was tough to get along with.
SAM SIMON

I don't believe in miracles.
SAM SIMON

I am a big PETA supporter, and their East Coast headquarters is the Sam Simon building, and their We...
SAM SIMON

A lot of charities spend a million dollars on a fundraiser to make $15,000. It's a social swirl....
SAM SIMON

I want to do whatever I can to survive.
SAM SIMON

I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begr...
SAM SIMON

Veganism is an answer for almost every problem facing the world in terms of hunger and climate chang...
SAM SIMON

The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I'm getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer's fun...
SAM SIMON

There are certain times you realize you've got too much money. One was when I started getting bi...
SAM SIMON

When people make donations to non profits, they want to know that their money goes to good use.
SAM SIMON

Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I'm a big fan.
SAM SIMON

Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused anim...
SAM SIMON

No matter when or where, always bring your 'A' game, because you never know when it will ope...
SIMON SINEK

I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you.
SIMON SINEK

A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.
SIMON SINEK

Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why.
SIMON SINEK

A five minute call replaces the time it takes to read and reply to the original email and read and r...
SIMON SINEK

People don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it.
SIMON SINEK

If I said to most of the people who auditioned, 'Good job, awesome, well done,' it would hav...
SIMON COWELL

There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.
SIMON SINEK

Some people are born good-looking. Some have the gift of gab. And some are lucky enough to be born s...
SIMON SINEK

We can't all be good at everything. This is partly the logic behind having a team in the first p...
SIMON SINEK

Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything - for bette...
SIMON SINEK

Life was so much simpler in pre-video days when everyone refused invitations because the 'Forsyt...
SIMON HOGGART

Learning music is a birthright. And you have to start young.
SIMON RATTLE

One of the pleasures of staying with friends is that you get to browse their shelves. I always arriv...
SIMON HOGGART

He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have sai...
SIMON CALLOW

The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinning...
HERBERT SIMON

Too many brands treat social media as a one way, broadcast channel, rather than a two-way dialogue t...
SIMON MAINWARING

Anyone can sell product by dropping their prices, but it does not breed loyalty.
SIMON SINEK

I can't read a computer screen and never use a calculator. It's all in my head and by hand.
SIMON REUBEN

I'm a happy camper when I'm doing both: writing and art every day, along with a dose of read...
MARGE SIMON

Most successful American politicians look well-fed on endorsements, campaign contributions and chick...
SIMON HOGGART

I also learned to play Fruit Ninja on an iPad. It is quite hypnotic, and I hope one day to get past ...
SIMON HOGGART

The leverage and influence social media gives citizens are rapidly spreading into the business world...
SIMON MAINWARING

Every time I sat in a chemistry lesson, I thought, 'What am I doing this for? I don't ever w...
SIMON COWELL

What do we do after? Build a transfer station? Direct haul? And what will the form be? Contract with...
ALAN SIMON

If we fill to capacity we don't have to do a tax or bond to cover the rest.
ALAN SIMON

We're taking in less [household] trash and have more capacity. And capacity equals money.
ALAN SIMON

It's pretty much a lull in the action. We're looking forward to the next few years.
ALAN SIMON

Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergo...
SIMON MAINWARING

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then t...
SIMON RATTLE

As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywoo...
SIMON BEAUFOY

Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big tro...
SIMON COWELL

Don't borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with.
SIMON TRAVAGLIA

I work out three or four times a week, I have Botox, take tons of vitamins and vitamin infusions - i...
SIMON COWELL

I've had Botox, but then again pretty much everyone I know has. To me, Botox is no more unusual ...
SIMON COWELL

I get paid very well and am happy with what I make, but I'm not in the super-rich bracket. I sho...
SIMON BIRD

It's sad that the BBC is toning down Dennis the Menace for a cartoon series. He is losing his we...
SIMON HOGGART

To operate based on conviction and belief requires an acceptance that your actions could get you fir...
SIMON SINEK

The most potentially transformative impact of social media is its ability to encourage brands to mar...
SIMON MAINWARING

Non-disclosure in the Internet Age is quickly perceived as a breach of trust. Government, corporatio...
SIMON MAINWARING

The golden age is before us, not behind us.
ST. SIMON

Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.
NEIL SIMON

Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, We will stand by each other, however it blow.
SIMON DACH

In this age of omniconnectedness, words like 'network,' 'community' and even 'fr...
SIMON SINEK

There should be a readiness, on our part, to investigate with candor to follow the truth wherever it...
SIMON GREENLEAF

In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our reli...
SIMON GREENLEAF

People like us, we think differently, don't we? We are different. We do all the things that others d...
SIMON MORDEN

Oga. Watu hawaogi ndiyo maana wachafu. Kuoga ni lazima kutumia maji. Ukitaka kuoga neno, tumia maji;...
SIMON MASHALLA

If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire pe...
SIMON SINEK

There are in me the seeds from which, if necessary, the universe could be constructed. In me somewhe...
TED SIMON

America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, aw...
SIMON HOGGART

New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.
NEIL SIMON

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their ...
SIMON HOGGART

To be worth making at all a journey has to be made in the mind as much as in the world of objects an...
TED SIMON

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.
JOHN SIMON

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
PAUL SIMON

Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct ...
SIMON SCHAMA

Some years ago, writing about stage adaptations of fiction, I noted:
JOHN SIMON

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a w...
HERBERT SIMON

For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews...
SIMON WIESENTHAL

Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sist...
NEIL SIMON

It is a comfort to the unfortunate to have companions in woe. [Lat., Solamen miseris socios habuis...
SIMON FORMAN

Better your room than your company.
SIMON FORMAN

Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams.
ELLEN SIMON

Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while...
SIMON FOWLER

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
PAUL SIMON

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
SIMON CAMERON

Integrate purpose into your for-profit business model through a long term commitment to a cause that...
SIMON MAINWARING

Transforming a brand into a socially responsible leader doesn't happen overnight by simply writi...
SIMON MAINWARING

Albert Camus, a great humanist and existentialist voice, pointed out that to commit to a just cause ...
DAVID SIMON

British diplomats who worked in Iran during the 1980 hostage crisis are deeply upset by Ben Affleck&...
SIMON HOGGART

The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. Th...
DAVID SIMON

There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on th...
DAVID SIMON

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a we...
HERBERT SIMON

If you have the opportunity to do amazing things in your life, I strongly encourage you to invite so...
SIMON SINEK

For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it's doom and gloom ...
SIMON COWELL

The whole process of being one of the 10 finalists for the 'Vogue' Fashion Fund award has to...
SIMON SPURR

It's interesting in American culture. We like to build people up and then push them off the pede...
SIMON REX

American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones.
SIMON PEGG

There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't ev...
SIMON PEGG

Pilots have their names painted just beneath the canopy of their aircraft. This gives the pilot a se...
SIMON SINEK

One of the greatest challenges companies face in adjusting to the impact of social media, is knowing...
SIMON MAINWARING

I did an audiobook for 'Rough Crossings,' which I thought was one of the best books I had pu...
SIMON SCHAMA

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another p...
SIMON NEWCOMB

Actions speak louder than words. All companies say they care, right? But few actually exercise that ...
SIMON SINEK

You're lucky you had that when you were 20. I sure didn't. I was overweight, and I had acne.
CARLY SIMON

Perhaps the most powerful lesson other brands can learn from Nike is the need to act in accordance w...
SIMON MAINWARING

The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished pa...
SIMON SINEK

Playing piano well is one thing, but attempting to play at concert level accompanying Meryl Streep w...
SIMON HELBERG

Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclips...
SIMON NEWCOMB

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
CARLY SIMON

A social contract is the way out of this dilemma for corporations that want to lead in the 21st cent...
SIMON MAINWARING

However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacqu...
SIMON MAINWARING

Social media demands a lot of us on top of our already demanding lives. So let's disconnect as w...
SIMON MAINWARING

Ensure your employees understand what your brand stands for so they can be your first line of word-o...
SIMON MAINWARING

Not since the digital revolution in the early '90s has technology placed such a comprehensive bu...
SIMON MAINWARING

For a truly effective social campaign, a brand needs to embrace the first principles of marketing, w...
SIMON MAINWARING

More brands are waking up to their social responsibility and doing good work through cause marketing...
SIMON MAINWARING

We need to develop and disseminate an entirely new paradigm and practice of collaboration that super...
SIMON MAINWARING

Brands are facing a new competitive landscape in which self-definition, core values and purpose will...
SIMON MAINWARING

Brands are faced with the daily challenge of massively scaling their outreach in order to build pers...
SIMON MAINWARING

Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consen...
SIMON MAINWARING

Companies and their brands need to reach out and speak directly to consumers, to honor their values,...
SIMON MAINWARING

More and more companies are reaching out to their suppliers and contractors to work jointly on issue...
SIMON MAINWARING

Define what your brand stands for, its core values and tone of voice, and then communicate consisten...
SIMON MAINWARING

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for...
HERBERT SIMON

Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill.
JOHN SIMON

The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. ...
SIMON MAINWARING

There's an adage that is an apt description of the new dynamic at work between brands and consum...
SIMON MAINWARING

The role of social media is critical because it helps to spread cognitive dissonance by connecting t...
SIMON MAINWARING

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put t...
PAUL SIMON

There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.
PAUL SIMON

I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not...
PAUL SIMON

I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmo...
PAUL SIMON

I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it.
PAUL SIMON

The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
PAUL SIMON

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.
PAUL SIMON

My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the ...
PAUL SIMON

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?
PAUL SIMON

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
PAUL SIMON

Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
PAUL SIMON

My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. ...
PAUL SIMON

We've survived by believing our life is going to get better.
PAUL SIMON

I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only th...
PAUL SIMON

Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo.
PAUL SIMON

I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentime...
PAUL SIMON

Who am I to blow against the wind?
PAUL SIMON

I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm g...
PAUL SIMON

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, an...
PAUL SIMON

Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.
PAUL SIMON

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
PAUL SIMON

Listen to the sound of silence.
PAUL SIMON

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the s...
PAUL SIMON

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It&...
PAUL SIMON

Nike doesn't want to make products for everyone - they want to make products for champions.
SIMON SINEK

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope.
SIMON NEWCOMB

A country's economic growth may be defined as a long-term rise in capacity to supply increasingl...
SIMON KUZNETS

My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.
SIMON NEWCOMB

If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.
SIMON COWELL

My attitude is, if someone's going to criticize me, tell me to my face.
SIMON COWELL

When someone asks, 'Does success make you into a monster?' I always say, 'No, it enables...
SIMON COWELL

I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like g...
SIMON COWELL

My own saying is: 'Create the hype, but don't ever believe it.'
SIMON COWELL

I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical,...
SIMON COWELL

The secret of my success is that I make other people money. And, never ever, ever, ever be ashamed a...
SIMON COWELL

I still put punctuation in my texts. If it's an 'I', I make sure it's a capital.
SIMON COWELL

I could just sit back and get someone to spin my achievements, I suppose, but when I see others do i...
SIMON COWELL

You are a saucy little thing aren't you?
SIMON COWELL

Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that.
SIMON COWELL

I've always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn't like but who I was in fear of,...
SIMON COWELL

The love I have for my ex-girlfriends will always be there, so I think that's true love.
SIMON COWELL

I get very anti-social, depressed and irritable with people. I don't have time for them. I can&#...
SIMON COWELL

I like to know why a video has suddenly gone viral, why a song has broken, why a TV show is suddenly...
SIMON COWELL

You don't go into anything contemplating failure, because if you did, you wouldn't make it.
SIMON COWELL

Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people.
SIMON COWELL

You know what the secret to weight loss is? Don't eat much.
SIMON COWELL

Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.
SIMON COWELL

I am quite miserable because I'm never satisfied with what I've got. You're always looki...
SIMON COWELL

People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love.
SIMON COWELL

The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks.
SIMON SINEK

Corporations often partner with government after natural disasters, as many companies did in the aft...
SIMON MAINWARING

The most basic human desire is to feel like you belong. Fitting in is important.
SIMON SINEK

One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. ...
SIMON SINEK

Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.
SIMON SINEK

Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation.
SIMON SINEK

Infinity is a way to describe the incomprehensible to the human mind. In a way, it notates a mystery...
SIMON MCBURNEY

Memorable occasions should be brief, and so should be the expressions of appreciation.
SIMON KUZNETS

I've never seen it like this. Never . . . You've got to scratch for everything you get here. Claw. Bite. And it's going to come right down to the end. We know that. No nights off. There's no room for error.

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I've never seen it like this. Never . . . You've got to scratch for everything you get here. Claw. Bite. And it's going to come right down to the end. We know that. No nights off. There's no room for error.

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