Charles F. Haanel Quotes

We must be before we can do, and we can do only to the extent which we are, and what we are depends upon what we think.

Charles F. Haanel

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• That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Thinking
  • Always
  • Ride

• When I painted Christ's parents I was thinking of my own parents. The bearded man is the Child's father. He is my father. Chagall stated this in 1950

  

  Marc Chagall
  • Thinking
  • Father
  • Parents

• I'm inspired by artists like Robyn, just because she writes amazing pop songs, and they're not throwaway. When I listen to a Robyn pop song, I don't feel like she's just kind of saying something and not thinking; I feel like it's really emotional.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Song

• There aren't many hitters who like facing knuckleball pitchers. They may not be intimidated by them, but they sure are thinking about them before they go into the box.

  

  Phil Niekro
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  • May

• You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what they'll accept from you.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
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• I grew up thinking a bit of pushing and shoving was completely normal. Then I suddenly learned that if you kick another player, you get in trouble. Nobody had ever reprimanded me for that before.

  

  Diego Costa
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  • Player

• For us, the Grand Slams are very important. When the Grand Slams come, you're thinking, 'OK, this is the tournament.' To lose there is disappointing.

  

  Garbine Muguruza
  • Thinking
  • Important

• My real thinking and planning gets done when I'm doing something else like driving or walking or taking the shower.

  

  Liane Moriarty
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  • Done

• Never in my heart did I want to quit, but I did, at the end of 2012, start to wonder when I was getting fractures from running hardly at all; I started thinking, 'Am I asking too much of my body? Is it not going to do this for me anymore?'

  

  Kirsten Sweetland
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Running

• I started 'Society's Child' on a bus in East Orange as I was going home from school. I saw a black and white couple sitting there and started thinking about it.

  

  Janis Ian
  • Thinking
  • School
  • Home

• I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's been very little gratitude for this.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • English

• If we're talking about big-tent thinking in the Republican Party, I think we're all going to unite under a consistent economic theory. That's where our unity is, and that's what unites us.

  

  Asa Hutchinson
  • Thinking
  • Party
  • Unity

• I want people to start thinking about what it means to be HIV-positive and to ask questions about that.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Positive

• Relaxing is important; I would like to do more! Golf is a pretty good attempt, but good television, I find, is a great way to chill out and let it do the thinking for you. As long as the programme has got some substance and is well made, happy as a par round of 72!

  

  Mark Hadlow
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  • Thinking

• If you look at my career... I couldn't possibly have chosen those subjects if I was thinking, 'That's a great commercial idea.' I'm not aware of a great musical where someone has done that.

  

  Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Done

• It was at the Children's Defense Fund that I met Hillary. I was 21, feisty, and ready to fight. And I remember thinking immediately, 'Here is a woman who doesn't mess around.' Steel in her spine, Hillary didn't want to talk about anything other than how to make children's lives better.

  

  Donna Brazile
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Remember

• I thought, I hate the thought of a 12, 13 or 14 year-old girl seeing a picture of me and thinking she'll do what I did.

  

  Courtney Thorne-Smith
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  • She
  • Girl

• I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part of my identity, and I did it without thinking.

  

  David Sedaris
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Identity

• And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Good
  • Relationship
  • Harmony

• Every disadvantage has its advantage.

  

  Johan Cruyff

• We must be before we can do, and we can do only to the extent which we are, and what we are depends upon what we think.

  

  Charles F. Haanel
  • Thinking
  • Depends