Napoleon Hill Quotes
Most ideas are stillborn and need the breath of life injected into them through definite plans of immediate action. The time to nurse an idea is at the time of its birth. Every minute it lives gives it a better chance of surviving.
Quotes to Explore
-
We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.
-
Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
-
You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
-
We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
-
All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
-
My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work.
-
In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
-
In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
-
You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
-
I've never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising.
-
Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
-
No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
-
Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
-
Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
-
I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
-
If you have decisions taken from time to time at the level of the executives, which gives the impression of being discriminatory, if you are not open when government is functioning, then obviously people will make allegations.
-
I don't get sick of 'MMMBop' in any way shape or form, and I don't know why I would.
-
There's always pressure playing in the NHL. You want to play your best game every game. Expectations are always gonna be there; it's just important that you know how to handle expectations.
-
When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.
-
I want to help find opportunities for people to become active participants in their communities.
-
In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced.
-
A true preacher is best measured not by how many bouquets have been pinned on him but by how many brickbats have been pitched at him. Prophets have been on the receiving end of mud more than medals.
-
Most ideas are stillborn and need the breath of life injected into them through definite plans of immediate action. The time to nurse an idea is at the time of its birth. Every minute it lives gives it a better chance of surviving.
