Brian Tracy Quotes
Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.
Quotes to Explore
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Turn your wounds into wisdom.
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
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The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
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I need to be able to explain myself in context.
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I am lucky, I don't have aches and pains. I do Pilates regularly, which is a series of stretching exercises, and I recommend it to anyone of my age because the temptation is not to exercise when you get older. Well, you should.
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All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
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If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?
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Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.
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The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
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There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.
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The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of the universe and equips them to perform hundreds of duties. To all trees He bestows instances of wisdom to the number of its fruits and gives duties to the number of its flowers.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.
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You can draw inspiration from anything. If you're a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you're casually talking to says something that makes you so mad - you can create an entire scenario around that.
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And rather than make the book unwieldy I have eschewed notes-reluctantly when some obscure passage or allusion seemed to ask for a timely word; with more equanimity when the temptation was to criticize or 'appreciate.' For the function of the anthologist includes criticizing in silence.
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The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.
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We need to restore the confidence in the country, first of all.
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In all the more advanced communities the great majority of things are worse done by the intervention of government than the individuals most interested in the matter would do them, or cause them to be done, if left to themselves.
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The central purpose of all scripture is to fill our souls with faith in God the Father and in His Son, Jesus Christ.
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Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.
