Napoleon Hill Quotes

The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan.

Napoleon Hill

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• I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.

  

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• I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

  

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• I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'

  

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• Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.

  

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• And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

  

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• I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
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• Architecture begins where engineering ends.

  

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• If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.

  

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• I want to have a long career.

  

  Haley Bennett
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• Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

  

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• I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

  

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• Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?

  

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• In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, 'I'm no brain surgeon,' for a reason.

  

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• I'm not a revolutionary, and I'm not a warrior.

  

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• I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.

  

  Sam Heughan
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• No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

  

  Garrett Hardin
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• There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.

  

  J. Paul Getty
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• The best thing you can do for your body is sleep. It's simple. Cater to your body as much as to your mind. Your body, after all, houses your mind. You have to pay attention to your physicality as much as your mentality.

  

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  • Mind
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• The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it was something very personal to me.

  

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• One of the greatest, smartest things I ever did was give my kids Angie as their mom. She is such a great mom. Oh, man, I'm so happy to have her.

  

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• You are not one person. You are a different person in each moment in time. Your name means nothing. Go see a person with the same name in a different time, and it’s someone else entirely.

  

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• From day one, The Shield was a vehicle. It wasn't, 'This is what we're doing for the rest of our lives.' It was, 'This is the vehicle we'll use to bust into WWE, to ride to the top of it, and then we fight each other.' That was always the plan.

  

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• For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?

  

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  • Country
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• The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • Purpose
  • Habit