Napoleon Hill Quotes
A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.
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We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.
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First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
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I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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Toledo is better than exciting, it's happy. Because nothing is more conducive to unhappiness than taking yourself seriously, and taking yourself seriously is difficult when you're baseball team is the Mud Hens.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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I think we can launch - successfully, high quality - around 20 original scripted shows a year, which means every 2 1/2 to three weeks you're launching a new season or a new show on Netflix meant to be for really diverse tastes all around the world.
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In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.
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Whenever you hear somebody else is auditioning for something, you sort of assume they're going to get it. You should try to just ignore it.
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The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility.
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You took on a Quest, which is a thing only men - and exceedingly stupid men, usually - do.
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A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.
