Bob Proctor Quotes

Always ask yourself the question - Is this going to help get me to my goal or not?

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• I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Time
  • Work
  • Book

• When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Look
  • Civilization
  • Pool

• Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Long
  • Live
  • Lived

• Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Weak
  • Once
  • Weary

• I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Mind

• Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Society
  • Man
  • Political

• The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • Competition
  • Organization
  • Blow

• I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Myself
  • Decision
  • Listening

• The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.

  

  Jack Kent Cooke
  • Name
  • Will
  • Redskins

• My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Work
  • Inspiration
  • Musicians

• Detroit's a good investment because, first of all, the entry fee for everything is lower. And, you've got the talent that is here that is ambitious and motivated, so you're going to get in on a much lower cost structure in every way, shape, or form from labor to buildings to whatever.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Good
  • Talent
  • Motivated

• Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.

  

  Flume
  • Writing
  • Focus
  • Awesome

• But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Believe
  • Money

• Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • World
  • Children
  • Eyes

• Newt Gingrich is a boastful kind of guy. But when it comes to Wall Street, the former House speaker is surprisingly modest.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Guy
  • House
  • Kind

• I actually don't want a throne at all, because I don't view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Queen

• I started out as an impressionist and that's all about observing - how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
  • Quality
  • Voice

• Love just happens, you know.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Love
  • Know
  • Happens

• These are the moments when the powerful mind or the forceful character feels the ferment of the times, when his thoughts quicken, and when he can inject into the uncertainties of others the creative ideas which will strengthen them with purpose. At such a moment the man who can direct others, in thought or in action, can remake the world.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • World
  • Mind
  • Character

• You never know where the future will take you.

  

  Ana Ivanovic
  • Future

• With the transcendent or supernatural, they help us contextualize our own lives while we are here on this earth. On a narrative level, as a storyteller, they are a wonderful tool and technique by which to explore those hopes, those fears, those existential dilemmas that we all face from time to time.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
  • Time
  • Help
  • Earth

• The cardones cactus is very similar to saguaro cactus in Arizona. These cacti only grow in very specific, particular places.

  

  James Turrell
  • Cactus

• I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o
  • Feeling
  • Pain
  • Joy

• Always ask yourself the question - Is this going to help get me to my goal or not?

  

  Bob Proctor
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