Quotes of: Napoleon Keyword

Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.

The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andrée and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration

If you can control your behavior when everything around you is out of control, you can model for your children a valuable lesson in patience and understanding...and snatch an opportunity to shape character.

I Am a Mother

I love you Bonnie. So much that I hurt with it. And I hate it, and I love it, and I want it to go away, and i want it to stay forever....

Infinity + One

...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.

If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.

I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains

Insights, after all, come from the overlap between seemingly unrelated thoughts. They emerge when concepts are transposed, when the rules of one place are shifted to a new domain.

Imagine: How Creativity Works

Be as intellectual as you like about it, but India is brilliantly mad. And if you want to love it, you have to hate it first.

On The Road Again: Thirty Years on the Traveller's Trail to India

Passion is a far better prioritizer than any organization system. Soul refreshment comes from SEEING glory – not getting stuff done.

Redeeming the Time: A Christian Approach to Work and Leisure

Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

A mystery is not a puzzle waiting to be solved, but rather something for which there is . Mystery's offspring is not frustration but awe, and that sense of awe grows in tandem with knowledge.

Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine

When we first hear [a] word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

Get close enough to someone and his or her halo slips--not because they're bad, but because they're mortal.

My First White Friend: Confessions on Race, Love and Forgiveness

That guy in the corner. Never tells the truth, as a matter of principle. Why answer a question, he says, if you can tell a good story instead?

McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland

We had found nothing, and had been lost several times already in one morning, so this was shaping up into a top travel experience.

McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland

Success in life depends upon happiness, and happiness is found in no other way than through SERVICE that is rendered in a spirit of love." Napoleon Hill

Law of Success: The 21st-Century Edition

No sky Leila had seen before could compare to the beauty she was seeing above her. It didn't feel like some accident of nature but rather something that was purposefully unleashed on the world.

Let's Get Lost

Style comes from knowing who you are and who you want to be in the world; it does not come from wanting to be somebody else, or wanting to be thinner, shorter, taller, prettier.

The Little Black Book of Style

La lógica se negaba a estar con él para explicarle que no la estaba perdiendo para siempre, que las separaciones fortalecen, que antes había podido vivir solo, que no se moriría por más que se sintiera agonizando.

Mal de amores

Do you know people who insist they like 'all kinds of music'? That actually means they like of music.

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

The most wretched people in the world are those who tell you they like every kind of music 'except country.

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto