W. Clement Stone Quotes

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

W. Clement Stone

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• Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Painting
  • Kitchen
  • Busy

• We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

  

  Warren Weaver
  • Science
  • Ignorance
  • View

• What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Important
  • Me
  • Responsible

• I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Day
  • Always
  • Start

• When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Reason
  • Poet
  • Himself

• All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Good
  • Simple
  • Fashion

• The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Art
  • Politics
  • Lies

• The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Mind
  • Pleasure
  • Naturally

• I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?

  

  Ian St. John
  • People
  • House
  • Dance

• Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Power
  • Man
  • Moral

• I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Streets

• There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Time
  • Opinion
  • Drawing

• I think she has more gospel style than I do. I think I'm more, umm, you know mainstream I guess. I don't know if we split the vote. That could be possible but I don't think we are the same at all.

  

  LaToya London
  • She
  • Style
  • Same

• My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • World
  • Book
  • Together

• If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Giving
  • Best
  • Effort

• If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Movie
  • Laugh
  • Comfort

• Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Bi-coastal

• Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Adversity
  • Himself

• I've ended up as a filmmaker who really loves the movie part of movies. That time in my life was a big influence on the kind of movies that I ended up making. I always think I'm going to make a movie that's gritty and real, but then I make a movie that's like an opera. I fight it at first and then that's just the way it is.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality---It is justice at work, righteous, demanding, disciplined, sincere and unswerving; otherwise, it is not, it cannot be truth at all.

  

  F. Sionil José
  • Work
  • Truth
  • True

• In 1763 the English were the most powerful nation in the world.

  

  Albert Bushnell Hart
  • World
  • Powerful
  • English

• Regulation is necessary, particularly in a sector, like the banking sector, which exposes countries and people to a risk.

  

  Christine Lagarde
  • People
  • Risk

• Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • People
  • Experience
  • Success