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
-
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.
-
I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
-
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?'
-
There's nothing unnatural in creation.
-
Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
-
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.
-
What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
-
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.
-
I'd love to meet the right girl and have a family. I'm very broody.
-
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.
-
Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.
-
Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
-
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.
-
Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.
-
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.
-
I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
-
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.
-
The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.
-
I start lighting pine-scented candles the day after Halloween.
-
Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
-
I often work 14-hour days, but the job is very fulfilling. I love being my own boss.
-
If there is a reason I'm able to make unsympathetic characters human, it's because it's my desire to find what drives the unsympathetic behavior. Almost always at the bottom of it is some deep insecurity. Putting your finger on what each individual's particular insecurity is goes a long way to fleshing that person out.
-
If you do not have goals of your own you are doomed forever to work to achieve the goals of someone else.
