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.
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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.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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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.
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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.
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Work my hands in the soil, what's the pay for all the toil? Dust for blood, dust for blood, dust for blood.
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When I was child, I was intoxicated by celebrities, showbiz and theatre, but from a child's perspective, where they seem far away.
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My toes are all squished. During an operation, they had to take nerves out.
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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
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As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.
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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.
