Napoleon Hill Quotes
There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.
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In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.
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I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
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When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what it was about nuclear science, but whatever it was that triggered that interest, it stuck. I went after that one with a passion.
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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When Bob Wilson left the BBC for ITV, I got the 'Football Focus' job, and it went from there. It came completely out of the blue, but the fact I had a high profile certainly helped.
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Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.
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September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.
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There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.
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If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.
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Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.
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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?
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I think that gay people should have the right to get married by Elvis like everybody else.
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Often by the time writers and producers try to get a new hit song, the industry has already moved on. Whatever you're creating might not be as hot as it would have been during the time of your first hit. It definitely compromises the creative process when the music is changing and evolving so fast. If you're not on top of it, you will be forgotten.
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I was a crazy guy in Hollywood back in the day, and then when I switched into theater I got into work mode.
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I used to hitchhike a lot. I'd come home on the train from New York, and there'd be no cabs, but people would pick me right up and take me to my door because they recognised me. It was like a car service. I never really had a bad experience hitchhiking.
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The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth.
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There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.
