Brian Tracy Quotes
Single-minded concentration in the direction of your dreams intensifies your desires and increases your self-confidence.
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
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Reparations, I believe, are talked about for political reasons, trying to cater for the purpose of getting votes. If Congress was serious about reparations - in '93 and '94 the Democrats controlled the House, the Senate and the White House, and not one single Republican vote was needed for reparations.
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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
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I wish I had more confidence. I think that's probably my Achilles' heel. If I had more, I probably would have felt emboldened to make more interesting music earlier on, or really go for it in an artistic or songwriting sense.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.'
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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I can tell you that when you're counting every penny, knowing that you are a single bad decision away from bankruptcy, you inevitably lose focus on what really matters for your business.
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I've read every single fantasy novel there is. I mean, I would challenge a lot of people to read more fantasy novels than I have.
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When writers stop to sharpen pencils or get up and make coffee to procrastinate, they still stay in their heads with their characters. But when you zip over to read email or check your Facebook page, you get zapped out of the fictive dream. It's brutal on my writing.
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Every single day I'm shocked.
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I cherished the dream of a country embracing all its people.
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But the good news was that my elder sister refused to get married straight away and I couldn't get married until she did so I had the licence to go off and dream.
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I know that I can beat everybody, and this is what also gives me a lot of confidence and motivation for going out there and playing with a lot of emotion.
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I'm really in such a fortunate position to have that foundation with Hall and Oates that lets me do whatever I want. That's the dream of a lot of creative people, and I don't take it for granted. I try to make the most of it.
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'Cheers' was great. They paired me up with Shelley Long on this tiny bar set for the final audition. That was my first really big one, and we just clicked instantly – I still think I got the part because of Shelley.
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It's been hard for me to nail visual language and personal style because I like so many different things.
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What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.
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Single-minded concentration in the direction of your dreams intensifies your desires and increases your self-confidence.
