Secret Quotes

The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.

This really should be kept secret, but you can learn a lot by watching the making-of DVDs. Every actor should do it. You figure out what you're dealing with.

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.

It is no secret that the Golf Foundation has had its difficulties.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the young but never the actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event.

The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no bread, no potatoes, no rice. My mother was very extreme in terms of what she served. Since I left home more than 40 years ago, I've been making it right for myself.

My beauty secret is absolutely no sun.

Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.

The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.

Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it.

Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity.

Governments are moved by numbers, and the greater the number of people who admit that they believe, the greater the likelihood that the secret - if there is one being kept - will be revealed.

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.

The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

Each song has its own secret that's different from another song, and each has its own life. Sometimes it has to be teased out, whereas other times it might come fast. There are no laws about songwriting or producing. It depends on what you're doing, not just who you're doing.

There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.

Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick.

There is a secret hippie within me.

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.

I have been married for 58 years to the same woman. Our secret? Separate bathrooms.