Brian Tracy Quotes
Your ability to get along well with others will determine your happiness and success as much as any other factor.
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If you are at the top in entertainment, you earn money that you can never justify to ordinary people doing proper jobs. You can't.
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
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On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.
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It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now.
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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
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My father was military, so I traveled a lot, so I had 13 to 15 first days in new schools. Bullies transcend culture, unfortunately, and I had to deal with them wherever I went. I knew how to defend myself. But I didn't know how to fight.
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I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman, or wide receiver, strong safety, or linebacker. But when you speak of quarterbacks, it's automatically a default that you're supposed to be a leader.
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My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
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In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.
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I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
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Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood... she just jokes.
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I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.
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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
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I would quite like to play a big concert as Freddie Mercury. I can't sing that great and I haven't yet found a use for the over large size of my teeth. I quite fancy a mustache like that and he was such a great showman.
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I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.
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Martyrdom is evidence only of a man's honesty - it is no evidence that he is not mistaken. Men have suffered martyrdom for all sorts of opinions in politics and in religion; yet they could not therefore have all been in the right; although they could give no stronger evidence that they believed themselves in the right.
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I umpired for 25 years and can honestly say I never called one wrong in my heart.
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But there is something seriously problematic about radicals and progressives in American politics. Some say it's the two-party system that squashes third parties. Some say that it's the potentiality or expanse of the middle class that marginalizes people that want to reform the system itself. Some make a sort of psychological analysis, that the left doesn't want to win, that success means co-optation. All of those things have some merit.
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Under the second scenario, the effect on asset prices would be more protracted and would eventually be more differentiated by individual country circumstances.
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Your ability to get along well with others will determine your happiness and success as much as any other factor.
