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Louis L'Amour Quotes

«Some say opportunity knocks only once, That is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.»
«No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.»
Author: Louis L'Amour | About: Memory | Keywords: associations, dozen, trail, trails
«What is second sight? A gift? A training? Or is it simply that suddenly within the brain a thousand impressions, ideas, sights, sounds, and smells coincide to provide an impression of what is to be? The mind gathers its grain in all fields, storing i»
«Neither drink (coffee or tea) was known in Frankish lands, but seated in the coffeehouses, I drank of each at various times, twirling my mustache and listening with attention to that headier draught, the wine of the intellect, that sweet and bitter j»
«There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.»
Author: Louis L'Amour
«Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity and movement and changes in the world about him; then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow. The wish, however, must be implemented by deeds.»
Author: Louis L'Amour
«Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.»
Author: Louis L'Amour
«No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.»
«He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.»
Author: Louis L'Amour
«Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.»
Author: Louis L'Amour | Keywords: boast, covered

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