Brian Tracy Quotes

The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself.

Brian Tracy

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• Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Time
  • Different
  • Experience

• One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Writing
  • Future
  • Energy

• I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Love
  • Fighting
  • Idea

• A well-aimed spear is worth three.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Three
  • Worth
  • Spear

• Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Universe
  • Best
  • Always

• Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.

  

  Barry O'Farrell
  • Society
  • Religion
  • Hatred

• Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Art
  • You
  • Floor

• There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Money
  • Win
  • Choose

• When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Picture

• It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Military
  • Relate

• It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Discipline
  • Plan
  • Execution

• I've been lucky because Hollywood can be harsh and try to pigeonhole you. I've done TV, films, and comedy, done it all... I think I'm spread out evenly among the film community. I've been lucky and keep working with great actors.

  

  Randy Wayne
  • Great
  • Done
  • Think

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • You
  • Waiting

• I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Brother
  • Child

• I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Bad

• If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Gun
  • Background
  • Desk

• Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Small
  • Deep
  • Pride

• Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Time
  • God
  • Free

• Memories and possibilities are ever more hideous than realities.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Memories

• Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite!

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Writing
  • Giving
  • Zest

• If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.

  

  Charles de Montesquieu
  • God

• As a believer in the free market, the sooner you have people with a job - the better chance they have a job, the sooner they are employed - the sooner they become consumers. And the sooner they become consumers, the sooner they become deciders about their own health care decisions.

  

  Carlos Lopez-Cantera
  • People
  • Job
  • Free

• On TV at night, I DVR lots of programs - I use it more like a magazine rack flipping through shows than actually watching them in full. 'Charlie Rose,' 'Meet the Press,' '60 Minutes' are musts for me. I also DVR 'NBC's Nightly News' and 'The Chris Matthews Show' on Sunday.

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • Night
  • Rose
  • Sunday

• The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Giving
  • Way