Napoleon Hill Quotes
Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.
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I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project 'Artificial Intelligence,' which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio.
Ian Watson
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I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.
Samantha Morton
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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.
Ralph Bunche
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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
Napoleon Hill
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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
Washington Irving
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde
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Every girl wishes she was Juliet in some version of their life.
Hailee Steinfeld
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Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.
Carlo Goldoni
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The big talent is persistence.
Octavia E. Butler
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Things don't always happen the way one wishes they would.
Yuan Yuan Tan
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At an age when most youngsters are preparing for their GCSEs, I was suddenly a jet-setter, briefly the toast of Hollywood and London's West End. My immature wishes and naive opinions were treated with respect.
Jack Wild
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God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.
Mahatma Gandhi
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We must assent to the will of Heaven above and conform to the wishes of men on earth below, but the government should assert the majesty of its warlike might in order to drive away the hordes of fierce and cruel men. We know that the dispositions of these outer barbarians are as ravenous as those of wolves.
Zhang Zhidong
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Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.
Walter Murch
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The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Abraham Lincoln
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Any time someone puts a lock on something you own against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit.
Cory Doctorow
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In the United States, except for slaves, servants and the destitute fed by townships, everyone has the vote and this is an indirect contributor to law-making. Anyone wishing to attack the law is thus reduced to adopting one of two obvious courses: they must either change the nation's opinion or trample its wishes under foot.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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A lot of people have the misconception that, as a Muslim woman, I am somehow against women wearing bikinis. No, I want women to feel comfortable and confident in whatever they wear.
Halima Aden
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A brown lip liner will affect a red lipstick differently than a red lip liner.
Jillian Hervey
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A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.
Fred Allen
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So, you pick this stuff here and this stuff there and then you see things in certain ways and you start visualizing and thank God I get the chance to do this. It's really the greatest thing in the whole wide world.
Danny DeVito
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A tourist is a fellow who drives thousands of miles so he can be photographed standing in front of his car.
Emile Genest
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Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.
Napoleon Hill