Napoleon Hill Quotes
Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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Ill give you a definite maybe.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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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'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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If I manage to leave my bedroom and get to the gym, that makes me feel good about myself! For me, the most difficult part is getting out of bed, but once I'm out, I really enjoy playing sports.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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For 'Ghostbusters,' the thing that makes it such an amazing franchise and an amazing idea is that it is adds the element of physics and technology. It's not just about ghosts. Who the heck came up with that? It is such a good idea, such a unique combination of stuff from different genres. Ghosts and sci fi.
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What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.
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India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
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I'm a comedian, and my comedy has never endorsed violence towards gays.
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As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
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Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.
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The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.
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Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever it has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?
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Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.
