Napoleon Hill Quotes

Most real failures are due to limitations which men set up in their own minds.

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• The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'

  

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• I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.

  

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• Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'

  

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• If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia.

  

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• I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!

  

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• I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.

  

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• As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.

  

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• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

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• I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.

  

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• I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

  

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• I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

  

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• My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.

  

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• Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue.

  

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• First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.

  

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• This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.

  

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• Do not let where you come from define you, but never forget the values you learned from your close community.

  

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• Into the winter's gray delight, Into the summer's golden dream, Holy and high and impartial, Death, the mother of Life, Mingles all men for ever.

  

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• Lots are written about how 'she shows up at board meetings in the saree.' My God, I have never worn a saree to board meetings; people play it out in different ways. I think I have never shied away from the fact that I am an Indian, and I don't intend to, but you can be at home with both cultures.

  

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• The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away.

  

  J. I. Packer
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• Most actors I know come from a screwed up background, so it makes sense that if you can walk on to a space and recreate your reality, then that's the place that will become very dear.

  

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• Most real failures are due to limitations which men set up in their own minds.

  

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