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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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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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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The people who ask me for my autograph are the people who've put me here today, and you can't afford to forget that.
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All life deserves respect, dignity, and compassion. All life.
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We all would love the idea of people getting what's coming to them in books and in life, but sometimes the trajectory is a little more complicated than that.
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Whenever people say, 'You should be president,' I say, 'I thought you liked me.' Listen, I thought being mayor of Stamford was a wonderful job. Being governor of a state for a period of time is a wonderful job, and I'm not sure I'm at all attracted to Washington.
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Your ability to get along well with others will determine your happiness and success as much as any other factor.
