Brian Tracy Quotes

Action orientation is the mark of the superior executive.

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• One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Fear
  • Action
  • Take

• From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.

  

  Rain
  • Action
  • Star
  • Hero

• I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Action
  • Star
  • Actor

• But in action, one defies one's character.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Character
  • Action

• I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Done
  • Character
  • Past

• I'd always wanted to be an action heroine. That's a chick dream, getting to wear a leather bodysuit and be blonde and kick ass. But, what really attracted me to 'Dredd' was the script. It was fantastic! It was about people and characters, and not just about explosions and fighting.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • People
  • Dream
  • Action

• In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Important
  • Action
  • Doing

• Writers are not meant for action.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Action
  • Writers
  • Meant

• In 'Rangoon', I play an action star of the 1940s.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Action
  • Play
  • Star

• The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide spread change for us, our planet and its creatures.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Together
  • Change
  • Action

• In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Action
  • Movement
  • Beliefs

• It's Will Ferrell, he does Will Ferrell movies. But if you really look at it, he tries to do something different with each one, whether it's an action cop movie like 'The Other Guys' or doing 'Talladega Nights' going into red state America or 'Casa de Mi Padre' or 'Stranger Than Fiction,' which is more of a drama.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Different
  • America
  • Movie

• I think the biggest difference is in live action, you show up, and there's a set there and a ground to stand on, at least, and in animation, there's kinda nothing. You are making decisions on everything.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Up
  • Live
  • Action

• Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.

  

  Hans Magnus Enzensberger
  • Every
  • Orientation

• Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Society
  • Action
  • Responsibility

• Companies need to understand that the quicker they report product safety problems to CPSC, the quicker we can take action together and protect consumers from injuries.

  

  Hal Stratton
  • Together
  • Action
  • Safety

• I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Up
  • Reading
  • Mark

• I think 'Indiana Jones' was a lot of fun to do because of the places we went to and the adventures and the action. But Han Solo was also a huge part of my life.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Action

• The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important changes which need to be made to improve our nation's homeland security. I voiced my disappointment with the House leadership when this report was left until after the August recess for action.

  

  Leonard Boswell
  • Important
  • House
  • Action

• Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Animal
  • Plant

• We've never made progress in this country or in this state by lowering expectations.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Country
  • Progress
  • Expectations

• I am constantly swimming on the margin, neither 100% American, French, nor Lebanese. I am none of those. I am the result of those three. Sometimes it's an asset: no one can put you in a category. That I do not make typical Lebanese, European or American films does not bother me.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • American
  • Films
  • European

• In Africa, we filled up all available time busily doing not much, and then we wasted the rest.

  

  Alexandra Fuller
  • Up
  • Time
  • Rest

• Action orientation is the mark of the superior executive.

  

  Brian Tracy
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