Napoleon Hill Quotes

Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.

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• We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Sexuality
  • Seduction

• America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • War
  • Cold

• I don't speak Spanish. I understand enough of it, having spent some time running Telemundo, and I put in a lot of time in Spain during the Barcelona Olympics. But I don't pretend to speak Spanish, and I don't want anyone to think that I can.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Time
  • Think
  • Running

• The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Actor
  • Stage
  • Paper

• You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Time
  • Music
  • Interesting

• Becoming a 'Sir' is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • You
  • Amazing
  • Honor

• That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Always
  • Word
  • Fan

• In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Kids
  • Clothes
  • Grow

• Ordinary Muslims in Europe, who suffer from the demoralisation caused by living as perennial objects of suspicion and contempt, are far from thinking of themselves as a politically powerful, or even cohesive, community, not to speak of conquerors of Europe.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Thinking
  • Community
  • Powerful

• I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.

  

  Ted Stevens
  • Intelligence
  • Reform
  • Context

• I was very obsessed with my music, and I think that, as a young girl, I really wanted to get into this business, and I don't think my parents really knew how to protect me.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Music
  • Business
  • Parents

• When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Children
  • Friends

• My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Job
  • Day
  • First

• Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Police
  • Planning

• Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • World
  • Children

• I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Way
  • Idealist

• If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.

  

  Ferdinand Porsche
  • Times
  • Fail
  • Himself

• Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could've had.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Life
  • You
  • Celebrate

• The reason there's a question mark on my front door is just in case I forget my address.

  

  Leslie Nielsen
  • Question
  • Door

• Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Science
  • Faith
  • Blind

• In a city that is barely getting by with its small budget, something like illegal immigration can be the difference from being able to provide the level of public service that people expect.

  

  Lou Barletta
  • People
  • Small
  • City

• But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Small
  • Dreams
  • Surroundings

• Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Small
  • Fire
  • Results