W. Clement Stone Quotes
You can develop a burning desire to succeed. How? Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don't want.
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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I was very shy and reserved, so it was a bit contradictory to get into politics.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in Gaelic speak in English, they get the same rhythm.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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In some families, parents don't read or don't have the money to spend on books.
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Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.
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I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
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I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.
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I mean, it's fun for us to talk about issues. You know, there's no one issue we spend a lot of time on probably, because he gets to do that all day with somebody else who's a lot more expert at issues than I am.
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The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
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I'd rather be a non-All-Star playing in the Western Conference finals than an All-Star who's sitting at home in May.
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I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.
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Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want, it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life.
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There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as a world of physical reality exists, the one like the other independent of ourselves, both of divine creation.
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The best way to hate is the worst. 'Tis to find what the hated need, Never mind of what actual worth, And wipe that out of the earth. Let them die of unsatisfied greed....
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You can develop a burning desire to succeed. How? Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don't want.
