Twelve Quotes - Page 17

• There are twelve good reasons for failure. The first one is the avowed intention of doing no more than one is paid to do, and the person who makes this avowal may see the other eleven by stepping before a looking glass.

  Napoleon Hill

  Glasses, May, Firsts

  Napoleon Hill (1937). “The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons: Teaching, for the First Time in the History of the World, the True Philosophy Upon which All Personal Success is Built”

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• What I find them struggling most isn't with one of the twelve [things from daily list]; I find them struggling with what decisions to make.

  John C. Maxwell

  Struggle, Decision, Lists

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• Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it goes so far beyond cool. All I can think is 12 magicians, two carnies.

  Penn Jillette

  Gun, Night, Thinking

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• During episodes of unemployment I find it rewarding to sleep as much as possible-anything from twelve to fourteen hours a day is a good starting point. Sleep spares you humiliation and saves money at the same time: nothing to eat, nothing to buy, just lie back and dream your life away.

  David Sedaris

  Dream, Lying, Sleep

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• If God had meant us to go metric, why did he give Christ twelve apostles?

  Gyles Brandreth

  Giving, Metrics, Christ

  Gyles Daubeney Brandreth (1982). “More joy of lex: an amazing and amusing Z to A and A to Z of words”, William Morrow & Co

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• I discovered [Joan of Arc] toward the age of ten or twelve, when I went to France. I don't remember where I read about her, but I recall that she immediately took on a definite importance for me. I wanted to sacrifice my life for my country. It seems like foolishness and yet...what happens when we're children is engraved forever on our lives.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Children, Sacrifice

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• Even though you make twelve hundred bucks a month, if I was making twelve hundred bucks a month to play baseball, I would have done it. I would have stayed.

  Tyler Hoechlin

  Baseball, Play, Done

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months.

  Peter Scott

  Korea, Australia, Training

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• George Bernard Shaw writes like a Pakistani who has learned English when he was twelve years old in order to become an accountant.

  John Osborne

  Writing, Order, Years

  John Osborne (2014). “Damn You England: Collected Prose”, p.53, Faber & Faber

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• I think that if they want people to listen to ten or twelve songs, they have to give the listener a reason to listen to ten or twelve songs or to buy ten or twelve and listen to the whole thing instead of just pulling one or two for their iPod or their computer.

  David Byrne

  Song, Thinking, Two

  "Byrne, Baby, Byrne". Interview with Michael Archer, www.guernicamag.com. April 15, 2010.

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• I play ten, twelve weeks out of the year, five times a week, and I really still love to do it. But that's not what I'm interested in doing now. Even though I love it.

  Pat Benatar

  Years, Play, Week

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The amount of "followers" you have does not make you better than anyone else. Hitler had millions. Jesus had twelve.

  Mark Hart

  Jesus, Doe, Followers

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• For twelve years I studied and worked at them every day, and I was nearly 25 before I had the courage to play one of them in public. Before I did, no violinist or cellist had ever played a Suite in its entirety.

  Pablo Casals

  Years, Play, Cellists

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• Spatial intelligence is virtually left out of formal education. In kindergarten we give children blocks and sand with which to build. Then we take those things away for the next twelve years of their education and expect kids to be architects and engineers.

  Ann Lewin-Benham

  Education, Children, Block

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• The iron tongue of Midnight hath told twelve lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time. I fear we shall outstep the coming morn as much as we this night over-watch'd.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Iron, Bed

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. [372]

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• The Heavenly Spheres make music for us,
  The Holy Twelve dance with us,
  All things join in the dance!
  Ye who dance not, know not what we are knowing.

  Gustav Holst

  Knowing, Spheres, Holy

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• An old Arabian fable tells of a prince imprisoned in a castle which had thirteen windows. Twelve of these windows overlooked lovely scenes, while the thirteenth looked down on the black ash heaps of the city. Ignoring the twelve windows, the prince always looked out through the thirteenth. It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.

  James Keller

  Courage, Cities, Individuality

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• You can swim, too." he says. "Where did you learn that in District Twelve?" "We have a very big bathtub.

  Suzanne Collins

  Swim, Bigs, Bathtubs

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• "Katniss," Gale says softly. I recognize that voice. It's the same one he uses to approach wounded animals before he delivers a deathblow. I Instinctively raise my hand to block his words but he catches it and holds on tightly. "Don't," I whisper. But Gale is not one to keep secrets from me. "Katniss, there is no District Twelve."

  Suzanne Collins

  Block, Animal, Hands

  "Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, Book 2)". Book by Suzanne Collins, September 1, 2009.

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• [Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. “Four hours, thirty-six minutes, and twelve seconds till we’re out of purgatory for the weekend.” “Maybe later,” I murmur, still distracted by the day’s previous events. “So, let me show you how a conversation works. I say something, and then you say something back that actually relates to what I was talking about, as if you were even the least bit interested.” “Huh?” I say.

  Jodi Picoult

  Weekend, Talking, Lunch

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• It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town.

  Elie Wiesel

  War, Years, Parent

  Elie Wiesel (2006). “Dawn: A Novel”, p.8, Macmillan

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• Amor deliria nervosa: It affects your mind so that you cannot think clearly, or make rational decisions about your own well-being. Symptom number twelve.

  Lauren Oliver

  Thinking, Numbers, Decision

  Lauren Oliver, Veronica Roth, Lauren Conrad, Sara Shepard, Kiera Cass (2012). “Must-Read Teen Novel Sampler: For the Teen in All of Us: A Collection of Fabulous Reads”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• I don't know about the rest of the country but in New York more people have learned anonymity from rent control than ever discovered it in a twelve-step program.

  Lawrence Block

  Country, New York, People

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• She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.

  Alice Hoffman

  Felt

  Alice Hoffman (2009). “The Story Sisters: A Novel”, p.35, Broadway Books

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• New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  New Year, New Beginnings, Men

  Hamilton Wright Mabie (1893). “My Study Fire”

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