W. Clement Stone Quotes
Give a smile to everyone you meet (smile with your eyes) - and you’ll smile and receive smiles...
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
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Even people who believe they deserve to be happy and have nice things often don't feel worthy once they have them.
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.
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I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.
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I am not thinking about life after football, but I know it will be another life, another world.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else.
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Foreigners can only fight with success in the summer. We can fight during any of the four seasons, so we have the weather on our side.
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The concept of minimalism is to relax. Like a Zen monk in training, it is something that brings equilibrium to the heart. I don't necessarily think it has any problems, but if I were to force myself to name one, I would say that since the minimalist feeling already includes its own universe, I think it might kill the drive that we would otherwise have to commit the physically impossible and attempt to travel into outer space.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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Give a smile to everyone you meet (smile with your eyes) - and you’ll smile and receive smiles...
