Brian Tracy Quotes
The average person works at fifty percent or less of their potential. Your job is to unleash that extra fifty percent.
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I'm only 26 - I don't know anything about life yet. Life is like a puzzle and my pieces are spread all over the world.
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I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and everyone sang in choir. I started out playing the saxophone, but I always wanted to be in an orchestra. That was a dream as a kid, and there aren't a lot of saxophones in an orchestra.
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Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
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A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
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The fight against terror cannot stop as long as terrorism itself is not stopped, but the path of war must change: it must lead directly to terrorists and not be waged on the backs of three million Palestinians.
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Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.
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There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
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For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of racism, at least in white circles and white media.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.
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Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
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Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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It's important to stay creative.
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I work with a lot of different charities, and by that I don't mean merely by giving money, but by really getting involved hands-on. I've always said that one of the reasons why I was put on this Earth was to help people. That's something I've always enjoyed both here in America and if I have the opportunity when I'm traveling out of the country. For example, I like to visit orphanages to spend time with the children. That's very important to me.
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The young men in our city are not problems to be solved. They are opportunities to be unleashed.
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Emotions are the key to many aspects of life. They are precisely the elements that make human beings human. I think the fact that emotions have been reduced and put off to the side in intellectual work, particularly in the 20th Century, is tragic.
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I'm this high school dropout. I quit in my sophomore year, when I was 15. I worked for a while in a deli, and when I was almost 17, I got married.
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The average person works at fifty percent or less of their potential. Your job is to unleash that extra fifty percent.
