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Quotes About Material

thoughts are things," and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire for their translation into riches, or other material objects.
~ Napoleon Hill
Being a philosopher as well as a preacher, Dr. Gunsaulus recognized, as do all who succeed in life, that DEFINITENESS OF PURPOSE is the starting point from which one must begin. He recognized, too, that definiteness of purpose takes on animation, life, and power when backed by a BURNING DESIRE to translate that purpose into its material equivalent.
~ Napoleon Hill
Unfortunately, there is no legal protection against those who, either by design or ignorance, poison the minds of others by negative suggestion. This form of destruction should be punishable by heavy legal penalties, because it may and often does destroy one's chances of acquiring material things which are protected by law.
~ Napoleon Hill
perseverancia, y un deseo ardiente para que se traduzcan en riquezas o en otros objetos materiales.
~ Napoleon Hill
Your business in life is, presumably to achieve success. To be successful, you must find peace of mind, acquire the material needs of life, and above all, attain HAPPINESS. All of these evidences of success begin in the form of thought impulses.
~ Napoleon Hill
Sympathy can never hinder success. It is selfishness that blights and destroys. As goodwill increases, man's prosperity will increase. All interests are mutual, and stand or fall together, and as sympathy expands the heart, it extends the circle of influence, making blessings, both spiritual and material, to more greatly abound.
~ Napoleon Hill
TRULY, thoughts are things, and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a BURNING DESIRE for their translation into riches, or other material objects. A
~ Napoleon Hill
TRULY, thoughts are things, and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a BURNING DESIRE for their translation into riches, or other material objects.
~ Napoleon Hill
Do not confuse the word "belief" with the word "wish." The two are not the same. Everyone is capable of "wishing" for financial, material, or spiritual advantages, but the element of faith is the only sure power by which a wish may be translated into a belief, and a belief into reality.
~ Napoleon Hill
Unfortunately, there is no legal protection against those who, either by design or ignorance, poison the minds of others by negative suggestion. This form of destruction should be punishable by heavy legal penalties, because it may and often does destroy one's chances of acquiring material things which are protected by law.
~ Napoleon Hill
To be successful, you must find peace of mind, acquire the material needs of life, and above all, attain happiness.
~ Napoleon Hill
By dumping the kitchen sink of scientific references in a paper, one can make another literary intellectual believe that one's material has the stamp of science.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A mí siempre me duele la cabeza. ¡Me siento cansada!». Y entonces él decía: «No estás enferma. Lo único que te pasa es que estás hecha de un material de mala calidad».
~ Natalia Ginzburg
A scythe's journal is traditionally made of lambskin parchment and kid leather." "I assume you mean 'kid' as in 'goat,'" Rowan said, "and not 'kid' as in 'kid.
~ Neal Shusterman
I have loved you woman as surely as I have named you rust and sand and nylon.
~ Charles Bukowski
The final result covered almost fifteen acres and was the largest earthen structure in the Western Hemisphere; though built out of unsuitable material in a floodplain, it has stood for a thousand years.
~ Charles C. Mann
Traditionally, archaeologists have regarded the wet tropics as unpromising. Because Amazonia has little stone or metal, "99 percent of material culture was perishable," Erickson told me. "Cane, chonta [palm wood], bones, basketry, wood—none of it survives these conditions. The whole culture, even if it was there for thousands of years, seems to be gone.
~ Charles C. Mann
But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this— we can perceive that events are brought about not by insulated interpositions of Divine power, exerted in each particular case, but by the establishment of general laws.—Whewell: Bridgewater Treatise.
~ Charles Darwin
But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this—we can perceive that events are brought about not by insulated interpositions of Divine power, exerted in each particular case, but by the establishment of general laws.
~ Charles Darwin
Lily's spirit neediness expressed itself raw as a kerosene blaze in the material world.
~ Charles Frazier
In Ruby's mind, everything […] fell under the rule of the heavens. […] They were, as Ada saw them an expression of stewardship, a means of taking care, a discipline. They provide a ritual of concern for the patterns and tendencies of the material world where it might be seen to intersect with some other world.
~ Charles Frazier
New York Times has noted, "Data is merely the raw material of knowledge.
~ Charles Wheelan
If you have only 95 minutes of material, make an only 95-minute movie. Amazing how often that's forgotten.
~ Stephen Hunter
I've always been a material-based actor. That's what I've done, the choices I've made - like a heat-seeking missile.
~ Lindsay Duncan