George S. Clason Quotes

Desires must be simple and definite. They defeat their own purpose should they be too many, too confusing, or beyond a man's training to accomplish.

George S. Clason

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• I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Up
  • Period
  • Movies

• I have one friend that I've had since I was born, and she's from Coatzacoalcos. She's not really impressed or interested in the actor's life. My family isn't really either.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Family
  • She

• I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Work
  • Great
  • Think

• Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Experience
  • Road
  • Acceptance

• Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Always
  • Better

• We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Wanted
  • Copy
  • Leigh

• Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Good
  • Education
  • Support

• What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Money
  • Dress

• Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Music
  • Interesting
  • Find

• I would never suggest anyone to stay at a company more than six or seven years. We grow as individuals and the world is moving so fast. Typically, I'll always sell a piece of each of my companies along the way.

  

  J. Christopher Burch
  • World
  • Moving
  • Grow

• I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • School
  • Kids

• I think it's the broadest source of dissatisfaction amongst Republicans, out-of-control spending.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • Think
  • Control
  • I Think

• If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • God
  • Business

• The actor’s realm is that of the fleeting.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Actor
  • Realm
  • Fleeting

• I don't do radio or TV. I do people.

  

  Corrine Brown
  • People

• I believe in comfort. If you don't feel comfortable in your clothes, it's hard to think of anything else.

  

  Donna Karan
  • Believe

• Some people come into our life as a blessing, while others come into our life as a lesson, so love them for who they are instead of judging them for who they are not.

  

  Yolanda Hadid
  • People
  • Life
  • Judging

• I'm in that, I guess, top 2 percent or something.

  

  Bill Bennett

• The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Study
  • Mathematician
  • Engaged

• The highest benevolence acts without purpose.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Purpose
  • Benevolence

• Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Life
  • Success

• Wyclef is a musician that tried to unite as many musicians at once as possible. I am trying to be successful at that. The greatest challenge is that, I just got arrested for protesting in NYC for cutting the school budgets... And I think that it's important to stand up. Schools are important.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Important
  • Challenge
  • Successful

• Life is weird, great and dangerous.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Life
  • Dangerous

• Desires must be simple and definite. They defeat their own purpose should they be too many, too confusing, or beyond a man's training to accomplish.

  

  George S. Clason
  • Purpose
  • Desires
  • Definite