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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Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.
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Nowadays I get complaints about long drum solos, but in those days they wanted me to keep on going so they could go over to the bar and have a drink.
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I've got an overactive, analytical brain. I get frustrated, impatient, angry with myself. I swear at myself a lot.
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The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.
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A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
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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.
