"I had learned, from years of experience..." - Quote by Napoleon Hill
I had learned, from years of experience with men, that when a man really desires a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win.
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More on Desire
“Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.”
“Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.”
“When you are fully present with everyone you meet, you relinquish the conceptual identity you made for them - your interpretation of who they are and what they did in the past - and are able to interact without the egoic movements of desire and fear. Attention, which is alert stillness, is the key.”
More on Determination
“One tiny Hobbit against all the evil the world could muster. A sane being would have given up, but Samwise burned with a magnificent madness, a glowing obsession to surmount every obstacle, to find Frodo, destroy the Ring, and cleanse Middle Earth of its festering malignancy. He knew he would try again. Fail, perhaps. And try once more. A thousand, thousand times if need be, but he would not give up the quest.”
“People do not lack strength; they lack will.”
“Nature yields her most profound secrets to the person who is determined to uncover them.”