Mike Newlin quotes

“Genius is perseverance in disguise.”
-- Mike Newlin

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-- Mike Newlin

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“Practice is a talent. Perseverance is a talent. Hard work is a talent.”

“If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.”

“I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination. I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing.”

“Adversity introduces a man to himself.”

“What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.”

Source : "Making a Habit of Success: How to Make a Habit of Succeeding, How to Win With High Self-Esteem". Book by MacK R. Douglas (p. 45), 1999.

“But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success.”

“My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match.”

“Genius is a will-o'-the-wisp if it lacks a solid foundation of perseverence and fanatical tenacity. This is the most important thing in all of human life...”

“The true secret to genius is in creativity, not in technical mechanics.”

“It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.”