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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Smoking is an outward signal of inner turmoil or conflict and most smoking has less to do with nicotine addiction and more to do with the need for reassurance.
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I got involved with classical music when I was in high school and it's followed me throughout my entire life and probably had a profound effect on my life.
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Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.
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I am a father, I am very aware of the things that I'm putting out in the world knowing that one day my children will watch the work that I've done. I want to be able to stand by it.
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You don't have to make yourself look like people expect you to look.
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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.
