Napoleon Hill Quotes
Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.
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Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.
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It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.
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Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.
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My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.
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A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
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It was not hard to persuade people that the market was sound; as always in such times they asked only that the disturbing voices of doubt be muted and that there be tolerably frequent expressions of confidence.
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I picked up my college copy of 'The Great Gatsby' in an attempt to recover from the movie and was interested to find out what I'd underlined. The answer was basically: everything.
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In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.
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Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job - two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be.
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Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.
