Brendon Burchard Quotes
People are remarkably bad at remembering long lists of goals. I learned this at a professional level when trying to get my high-performance coaching clients to stay on track; the longer their lists of to-dos and goals, the more overwhelmed and off-track they got. Clarity comes with simplicity.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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Good comedy is ageless.
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Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.
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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
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I go to Buzzfeed and 'Huff Po,' IMDB, 'Deadline.' And then I just Google myself, like 'Aasif Mandvi in a hat,' and see what comes up.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
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I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.
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In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.
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My thing about creating things is that it has to do two purposes: It has to serve me creatively but also has to serve the people.
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I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
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In 1962, the smallest things were upsetting to authority. It wasn't the Civil Rights Movement. It wasn't the Anti-war Movement. It was something else, but it was a harbinger of what was to come.
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People are remarkably bad at remembering long lists of goals. I learned this at a professional level when trying to get my high-performance coaching clients to stay on track; the longer their lists of to-dos and goals, the more overwhelmed and off-track they got. Clarity comes with simplicity.
