Napoleon Hill Quotes

Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

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• I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Girl
  • Fighting
  • Little

• Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Song
  • Creative
  • Begin

• I was always under the impression that acting is an innate gift. One of the first things I heard them say at Koothu-P-Pattarai was that actors should realise the art of acting through their training.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Art
  • Training
  • Gift

• We are paying the price for living longer, collecting degenerative diseases along the way. Cancer is only one. Others are heart and brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinsons.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Cancer

• Our leaders are acting like lemmings.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Like
  • Acting
  • Leaders

• Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Children
  • Hate

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • People
  • Life
  • Money

• Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Country
  • Fun
  • Easy

• I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Imagination
  • Person
  • Gun

• I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Inspired

• Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Time
  • Period
  • Youth

• I don't really consider myself an impressionist.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Myself
  • Really
  • Consider

• If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • People
  • Know
  • Support

• A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Book
  • Stories
  • Living

• In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Real
  • Hurt

• As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Time
  • Career
  • You

• In point of fact, 'Simpson-Bowles' has become a symbol, or SimBowl, rather than an actual plan, political shorthand for the process of long-term deficit reduction.

  

  Joe Klein
  • Long
  • Political

• I read the script and try not to bring anything personal into it. I make notes, talk to the director and we decide what kinds of shades should be in the character.

  

  Dennis Farina
  • Character

• I love every character in the DC universe, except for Rampage. Rampage is a She-Hulk rip-off, and I like She-Hulk.

  

  Geoff Johns
  • She
  • Character
  • Universe

• If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • You
  • Woman
  • Looking

• Pouring arms into the spreading cauldron of war risks exacerbating the crisis in Iraq. A fully inclusive international diplomatic process should be attempted and is urgently needed now, before the fires of war and militancy spread further in the region.

  

  David Cortright
  • Military
  • Crisis
  • Needed

• Character is to man what carbon is to steel.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Character
  • Carbon
  • Steel