Napoleon Hill Quotes
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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Just about anyone can make a good product, but it's the people that count. In the end, it's the employees who will take it from a kitchen-table idea to the next level. There are a lot of important things in business, but the people portion comes first.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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It's not easy, especially in our politically polarized world, to recognize both the structural and the cultural barriers that so many poor kids face. But I think that if you don't recognize both, you risk being heartless or condescending, and often both.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel that doesn't travel from one place to another, emotionally or locally.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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I was a sophomore in college, and I did an industrial video about how to use the Internet - that dates me! It was with John Turturro, somehow they had gotten John Turturro to do this thing, and I was so excited and so nervous I probably drank 10 cups of coffee that morning.
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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
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I never intended to be in show business; I intended to be an extremely grounded person.
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At least the politicians are accountable to the voters.
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My background with acting is deeply interwoven with my family life and my childhood. It's a 'Peter Pan'-like narrative, something that was golden but could also be a bit dubious.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
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Life’s greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail!
