Napoleon Hill Quotes
It is in quiet that our best ideas occur to us. Don't make the mistake of believing that by a frantic kind of dashing around you are being your most effective and efficient self. Don't assume that you are wasting time when you take time out for thought.
Quotes to Explore
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.
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If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
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The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I don't drink hot beverages.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
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I always wanted to be the person to whom people looked forward to give opportunities. As opposed to always being the person who wants to work with others and who is always the backup: where it's like, 'If nothing works out then OK, let's get this person.'
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Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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I'm not good at accepting help.
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I guess I write four or five hours a day, but I do it seven days a week. It's very disciplined, yes, but it's joy for me.
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I was okay with school. My sister Kourtney was extremely smart. I always read a little slower.
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I've been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn't starving; I was going to eat the next day.
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It is in quiet that our best ideas occur to us. Don't make the mistake of believing that by a frantic kind of dashing around you are being your most effective and efficient self. Don't assume that you are wasting time when you take time out for thought.
