Les Brown Quotes
If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.
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As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.
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Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
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I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.
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Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates.
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Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned with fresh excitement when you have not a care in the world, and so much to learn and witness.
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I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it.
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The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.
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I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four.
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If you want to move to a new level in your life, you must break through your comfort zone and practice doing things that are not comfortable.
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Society is going to judge you anyway, so do whatever you want to do.... No guts no glory.
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Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.
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Women's tennis? I think it stinks. They hit the ball back and forth, have a lot of nice volleys, and you can see some pretty legs. But it's night and day compared to men's tennis.
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I wrote the first draft of 'Plan B' the summer after I turned 21.
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If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.
