W. Clement Stone Quotes
So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune 500 retailers.
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No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
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I inherited some Chanel pieces from my mother. I've worn Prada - absolutely. Wonderful designers are inspiring. I also love designers not known. I love a lot of vintage pieces. I am pretty minimal, pretty classic.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.
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You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself.
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When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set.
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Roses red and violets blew, And all the sweetest flowres that in the forrest grew.
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Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.
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So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
