Brian Tracy Quotes
Refuse to make excuses or blame others. The leader always says, If it's to be, it's up to me.
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.
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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
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Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.
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When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
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The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible.
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I have about 4 million Lego bricks. And then a few million in storage in case something comes up. I still pay for them. I buy my bricks just like everyone else. It's by far my biggest capital expense.
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Kids will tease you for just about anything.
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I remember finding a Houdini book at the library and seeing an image of him chained on the side of a building. He looked so intense and scary, and I couldn't get that image out of my head. That started building up my love of magic.
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I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.
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'You asking me the way?' 'Yes,' I said, 'since I can't find it myself.' 'Give it up! Give it up!' said he, and turned with a sudden jerk, like someone who wants to be alone with his laughter.
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How stars move tell us that most matter in the universe is dark. When we see stars in the sky, we're only seeing five or 10 percent of the matter that there is in the universe.
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Refuse to make excuses or blame others. The leader always says, If it's to be, it's up to me.
