Famous Quotes & Sayings

Napoleon Hill

Concentration, itself, is nothing but a matter of control of the attention! Learn to fix your attention on a given subject, at will, for whatever length of time you choose, and you will have learned the secret passage-way to power and plenty! This is concentration!

Og Mandino

The greatest secret in the world is that you only have to be a small measurable amount better than mediocrity ...and you've got it made.

Og Mandino

The secret of success is to triple your rate of failure.

Norman Mailer

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind.

Omar Khayyam

I can’t reveal the mystery to either saint or sinner; I can’t state at length what I’ve said curtly; I achieve an altered state that I can’t explain; I have a secret that I cannot share.

Oliver Sacks

there are other senses -­ secret senses, sixth senses, if you will -­ equally vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded.

Oliver Sacks

We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognize and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But there are other senses - secret senses, sixth senses, if you will - equally vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded ... unconscious, automatic.

Olive Schreiner

The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.

Michael Buckley

Freaky monsters were trying to kill us," Sabrina said. "Should I have just died out there so you could keep your clubhouse secret?" "Absolutely!" the prince said.

Mason Cooley

My secrets are petty but humiliating.

Mason Cooley

Contempt for others, like masturbation, is best as a secret pleasure.

Mason Cooley

Secrets die when kept or revealed. They live by being faintly and uncertainly repeated.

Mary Augusta Ward

The only thing which can keep journalism alive - journalism, which is born of the moment, serves the moment, and, as a rule, dies with the moment - is - again the Stevensonian secret! - charm.

Melvin Burgess

That's her secret, I suppose. Everything that happens to her she's proud of. She makes it special by it happening to her.

Michio Kaku

The Europeans and the Americans are not throwing $10 billion down this gigantic tube for nothing. We're exploring the very forefront of physics and cosmology with the Large Hadron Collider because we want to have a window on creation, we want to recreate a tiny piece of Genesis to unlock some of the greatest secrets of the universe.

Michel Foucault

It is over life, throughout its unfolding, that power establishes its dominion; death is power's limit, the moment that escapes it; death becomes the most secret aspect of existence, the most private.

Michel Foucault

Madness, in its wild, untamable words, proclaims its own meaning; in its chimeras, it utters its secret truth.

Mark Ruffalo

That's my secret Cap: I'm always angry.

Manly Hall

Moderation is the secret of survival.

Manny Pacquiao

I don't have secrets in my life. Everything is out there.

Mahatma Gandhi

I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause.

Jackson Pollock

The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.

Erik Larson

I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold.

Emmanuel Petit

I want to keep my own guard, I want to keep my secrets, I want to keep my private life for me.

John Jay Chapman

Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.

Success is not a secret that is hidden from you.Success is a habit that is readily avaiable to you.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find.

Neil Gaiman

She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and all its foolish casual cruelty.

Nick Harkaway

A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without anonymity in discourse, free speech is impossible, and hence also democracy. The right to speak the truth to power does not shield the speaker from the consequences of doing so; only comparable power or anonymity can do that.

Seth Rogen

Like Toy Story, the joke is all about exploring the secret world of these various everyday objects.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.

Rajneesh

That is one of the great secrets of life, that life is a movement. And if you are stuck somewhere you lose contact with life.

Socrates

Listen not to a tale-bearer or slanderer, for he tells thee nothing out of good-will; but as he discovereth of the secrets of others, so he will of thine in turn.