Napoleon Hill Quotes

The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.

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• I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.

  

  Warren Ellis
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• I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.

  

  Pat Sajak
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• All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.

  

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• The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.

  

  Ralph Marston
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• I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary!

  

  Gail Simmons
  • World
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• I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Writing
  • Myself
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• I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Mother
  • Hand
  • Now

• I don't know how much the other fighters make. But I need to tell you that, for myself, money is not the first consideration.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Money
  • Know
  • Myself

• One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • World
  • Good
  • Darkest

• I think we are living in paradise with regards to the ways we can amuse ourselves, communicate. We have such a richness of possibilities.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Think
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• I think it's all about the people who listen to your music, and loving playing and writing. Once you've got those two, and they're your main two priorities, then radio and TV and all the other stuff that comes with it will come. But that's not the be-all end-all.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • Better
  • Spring

• I can only hope that my future movies will do well.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Movies

• My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter.

  

  Dana Priest
  • Learn
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• I started out doing musicals.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Doing
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• It is not length of life, but depth of life.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Depth
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• My childhood was great because my family has an amazing sense of humor, and it was just all making videos and jokes and doing skits and things.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Great
  • Family
  • Amazing

• You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Nature
  • Challenge
  • Tree

• I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Myself

• There are some things in this establishment that are fundamental... about which I shall deal plainly with you... the government by a single person and a parliament is a fundamental... and... though I may seem to plead for myself, yet I do not: no, nor can any reasonable man say it... I plead for this nation, and all the honest men therein.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Men
  • May
  • Single

• Punditry is like weather forecasting: the winds can shift without warning. I remember when nobody would bet a McDonald's Quarter Pounder that Bill Clinton would win the White House.

  

  James Carville
  • Remember
  • House

• Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not conceive the things that are merely commonplace to existence. If we could hover over this great city, remove the roofs, and peep in at the things going on, it would make all fiction, with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions flat, stale and unprofitable.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Life
  • Fiction
  • Watson

• The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Imagination
  • Fiction
  • Regard