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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I won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair.
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I say at the very end of "Winter Journal" that I do dream about my father often. I think I have a tremendous compassion for him, which has grown over the years. A certain kind of pity for him also in that he was so unrealised as a human being, so dogged, and so shut-off from people in many ways. You know, I've been writing another book, and it's another non-fiction autobiographical work, kind of a compliment to "Winter Journal", and it's just finished.
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The drawings that interest me most are made with closed eyes. With eyes closed, I feel my hand slide down on the paper. I have an image in mind, but the results always surprise me.
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I pride myself on having a journalistic remove.
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People will still make great art, but I think it's good to assume you will always be a failure. People were believing the opposite.
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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.
