Napoleon Hill Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.
-
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
-
It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
-
I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.
-
The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
-
Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
-
If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
-
Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
-
Sometimes, you're going 24 hours a day, seven days a week for a few months, and then you come home, and you wonder what you're doing with your life and why. At least, that's the experience I've had.
-
It takes heart to be in political life.
-
Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
-
My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
-
When I lived in Egypt, we always wore kaftans. I had cashmere kaftans from Halston. You put on a kaftan in your backyard, and it's like you're in Ibiza.
-
Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
-
You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.
-
If you're not going to wear a tiara when you win a Newbery Award, when are you going to wear one?
-
There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.
-
Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.
-
If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
-
I think no one but me has the right to write about my life as I want to write it in a particular way. I don't think any other person will be able to tell the story of my life like how I have approached it. It works best when it's written by someone who has experienced it herself.
-
Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play of light and shade. One can't catch that even with the sharpest lens.
-
I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
-
I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: 'Oh my God, what a blessing.' Then you realise it's important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.
-
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
