Napoleon Hill Quotes
One of the most essential yet the hardest truths that I have had to learn is that every person should be his own hardest task-master.
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Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.
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We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day, but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.
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I believe in aging gracefully.
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The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.
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The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
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I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.
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I'm street smart. You can't con me. But that's just from living in New York. Now if a guy came from Mississippi somewhere, Ohio somewhere, to New York City for the first time, he don't have the street smarts. You can take him.
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I love reading books that can break my heart.
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When I was growing up, I was very lucky. My family was the most important thing to me. They provided me with somewhere safe to grow and learn, and I know I was fortunate not to have been confronted by serious adversity at a young age.
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service.
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I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.
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The Longs event was the first LPGA event that I played in 8 years ago.
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You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
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It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.
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In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
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I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the exposure they deserve, especially when they travel so far to play the smallest gig they've ever played in their lives.
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Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted and unfortunately, extremely pervasive.
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European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion.
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My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.
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I'd like to be seen as a normal, attractive person with good values.
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Find a good teacher, don't betray yourself to succeed and be a better person before being a better actor.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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One of the most essential yet the hardest truths that I have had to learn is that every person should be his own hardest task-master.
