Napoleon Hill Quotes
Most of us go through life as failures, because we are waiting for the 'time to be right' to start doing something worthwhile. Do not wait. The time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.
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Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.
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I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.
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Honestly, I wasn't familiar with the whole DC comics world and the Batman world before I was part of 'Gotham.'
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The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.
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I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.
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I was a gay kid who didn't know I was a gay kid, which was really challenging because you think there is something wrong with you until you understand what it is.
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Most of us go through life as failures, because we are waiting for the 'time to be right' to start doing something worthwhile. Do not wait. The time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
