#secret

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#acquired #affairs #assuring #born #control

The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle of it. It was a mysterious island, lonely and beautiful. All the children stood and gazed at it, loving it and longing to go to it. It looked so secret - almost magic. “Well,” said Jack at last. “What do you think? Shall we run away, and live on the secret island?” “Yes!” whispered all the children. “Let’s! ↗

— Enid Blyton

#children #island #lonely #mysterious #running-away

The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London. ↗

— John le Carre

#intelligence #james #knew #little #london

My two secrets to staying healthy: wash your hands all the time. And, if you can't, use Purell or one of the sanitizers. And the other is hot peppers. I eat a lot of hot peppers. I for some reason started doing that in 1992, and I swear by it. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#eat #hands #healthy #hot #i

How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public. ↗

— Harry Houdini

#any #appear #become #came #church

But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years. ↗

— Harry Houdini

#been #before #experience #i #integrity

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#secret #triumphs

No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#ever #keeps #secret #well

No one can keep a secret better than a child. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#child #keep #secret #than

Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets. ↗

— Josef Albers

#apprentice #beginner #craft #european #first