Napoleon Hill Quotes
Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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My wife Kris and I enjoy keeping an active lifestyle, so it's hard to imagine what it would be like if breathing problems kept me from participating in the activities I love to do. But that's exactly what happens to many people who develop COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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Im not your biggest girly girl.
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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've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.
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When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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I can't bear kissing scenes.
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If you could get all the people in the organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.
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My mantra is simple: work gets you work, and good work gets you good work.
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It is important to realize that the market economy, though it is associated historically with the rise of modern private capitalism, is as a mechanism not necessarily limited to that system.
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I was the last person to get high-speed Internet, I was the last person to get an iPod, the last person to get an iPhone... I travel to India for one month out of the year and I don't have a phone there, so I can go without, which is beautiful, too.
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The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.
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It worries me that western journalists, especially British ones, call everyone they don't like 'marginal.'
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If you want to strengthen an enemy and make him exult - hate him.
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Every failure, every adversity, every heartache may be a blessing in disguise providing it softens the animal portion of our nature.
