Brian Tracy Quotes
Unsuccessful people get up whenever they feel like it and the first thing they do is watch television, read the paper, or check email. The rest of the day is pretty much 50% below maximum performance.
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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends.
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There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales.
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When I first put my hat in the ring, several very tried and true and loyal Democratic activists from our community said, 'What? She's not a Democrat. She's a Republican.' I took that as a compliment, you know, that people didn't necessarily know what my ideology might be because I wasn't driven by that.
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Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.
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People hate searching.
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I want to know what people thought and what they wore and what they ate for breakfast.
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I mean, we sit around and we go, you know, 'Torture doesn't work.' Well, it's been around for 5,000 years. Most stuff that doesn't work goes the way of the dodo pretty quick, like waterbeds and 8-tracks and things like that.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.
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One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.
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My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up.
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I like America, and I think probably the American people like me.
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Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.
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I love being a woman. I like dressing up; I love buying shoes.
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If you are an adult, and you are planning to dress up on Halloween...don't. I will find you. I will hurt you.
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We got things done at the right time tonight. Every time we went down we kept our composure and got back into the game. We were able to get a lead and sustain it. We showed a lot of character being that those guys (Washington) already had their playoff shirts made up and wanted to wear them after the game. We didn't give them a chance to do that, now they have to do it somewhere else. We had an extra incentive to beat them and that gave us a great lift. We just did everything right tonight.
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My favourite movie of all-time is 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.' I love Kate Winslet.
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Unsuccessful people get up whenever they feel like it and the first thing they do is watch television, read the paper, or check email. The rest of the day is pretty much 50% below maximum performance.
