Brian Tracy Quotes
If you do not have goals of your own you are doomed forever to work to achieve the goals of someone else.
Quotes to Explore
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago.
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I'd love to meet the right girl and have a family. I'm very broody.
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Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
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Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.
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Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.
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The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.
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To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.
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I wouldn't want to be a mother that put blinders on and didn't see what was going on with my child. There can be huge consequences to such a thing.
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In San Francisco, I found Warren Levinson, who had set up a program to study Rous Sarcoma Virus, an archetype for what we now call retroviruses. At the time, the replication of retroviruses was one of the great puzzles of animal virology. Levinson, Levintow and I joined forces in the hope of solving that puzzle.
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Soaring rhetoric will not restore the American people's confidence in their government.
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Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems.
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If you do not have goals of your own you are doomed forever to work to achieve the goals of someone else.
