Napoleon Hill Quotes

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

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• Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Man
  • Hands
  • Lucky

• I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Work
  • Down
  • Test

• Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • People
  • Nice
  • Makeup

• I could go to London in 2012. I will only be 37.

  

  Oxana Chusovitina
  • Will
  • London
  • Go

• When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Confidence
  • Goals

• My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Good
  • Why
  • Mom

• There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Interesting
  • Present
  • Which

• Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• Events tend to recur in cycles.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Events
  • Tend
  • Recur

• Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • World
  • Country
  • Age

• Betty Shabazz was the wife of a man who challenged a government that was historically unjust. She was harassed and placed under surveillance by the Nation of Islam (NOI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • She
  • Man
  • Wife

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Woman
  • Crush
  • Fat

• I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • American
  • Change
  • Agent

• Before I had a record deal, I was living in New York and playing anywhere I could, from somebody's house to an open mic to coffeeshops.

  

  Langhorne Slim
  • House
  • New York
  • Living

• The Israeli public's willingness to enlist, the warm embrace for the soldiers and the residents of the south, and the desire to contribute and to give at any given moment really warm the heart, and it gives all of us strength.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Heart
  • Desire
  • Moment

• Dream and you shall become.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Dream
  • You
  • Become

• I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.

  

  Elmore Leonard

• I mean, the way I see it is, every penny I've ever made through music is free money.

  

  Melissa Auf der Maur
  • Music
  • Money
  • Free

• I've just always been interested in alter-naturalism and seeing if you can make real life interesting enough to be dramatic without enhancing it. Like, could you make a movie or write a play in which there's no compression of time, there's no enhanced event, it's just real life?

  

  Kenneth Lonergan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Real

• ...once the cards are dealt we turn them up in turn, and make two piles each, one red, one black; the winner has the biggest pile of red ones. So once the cards are dealt the game is determined, and from any position in it you can derive all others back to the deal and forward to win or draw. ...in relation to the solar system..., the laws are like the rules of an infantile card game.... But in relation to what happens on and inside a planet the laws are, rather, like the rules of chess; the play is seldom determined, though nobody breaks the rules.

  

  G. E. M. Anscombe
  • Black
  • Action
  • Moral

• Feelings are universal, and if an actor's doing his job, I think he's making people sit there, and if it's in a movie or a theatre, going 'Hmm, yeah, I know that... I know that.'

  

  Jeffrey Combs
  • People
  • Job
  • Movie

• Action is the real measure of intelligence.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Real
  • Action
  • Intelligence