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.

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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.

  

  Talulah Riley
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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.

  

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

  

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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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• Europeans have just been better organized for genocide... Far from enjoying the prospect of taking over Europe by having babies, Europe’s Muslims are living on borrowed time...

  

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• It's much better to write a book and stick to the research - that's history. In cinema, emotional truth and psychological truth is much more important.

  

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• You can try to get an alligator to do a gravity bong hit, but you'll probably just get your ass bit.

  

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• The finite mind of man can never grasp the mysteries of the infinite. It is the highest wisdom, as it is our great happiness, to accept our limitations, to use what we have, and leave the rest to God.

  

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• I don't mind it. I just space it out. Every other week I go out. I used to get some time to myself but I've been pretty busy lately. But I've had it the other way, where I'm staring at the phone waiting for it to ring, so this is definitely better.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Mind
  • Waiting
  • Week

• 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