Brian Tracy Quotes
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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.
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People say if bees die out, the world would end, apparently. Now, I don't know if that's true, if that's some bee enthusiast who managed to write a good document, and people believe this.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me. I was married; I lived in a suburb; I had small children.
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I think probably the reason why I really enjoy acting is that I really am interested in people. I'm interested in what they think, why they think it and what happened in their lives to make them see things a certain way.
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I would love to do more work in the States, but I like working at home in the U.K., so to work here and there would be the plan.
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Thanks to every gay person in public and non-public life who has come out.
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I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
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A lot of my family on both sides have worked in education and nursing, and my grandmother was a nurse; my sister is a nurse, and her - my other sister's daughter is going into nursing. There's a lot of that in the family.
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India has a very good tradition in tennis.
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I've never read a self help book... the most self-help I've read is on a beer mat.
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Surf culture and surfing for me are two completely different things. Surf culture has become very – it's a very commercial, competitive thing, fashionable. With all due respect to the 'Surfer Dude' movie, I think the 'Surfer Dude' movie reflects that, reflects what surfing's become, but I come from a place where the surf industry began.
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Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.
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The world is full of people who would like nothing better than to spend six hours on a golf course. I would rather be chopping shallots.
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As soon as, say, Saddam Hussein started bombing Israel with Scuds, everyone was like, 'Poor Israel.' But when Israel retaliates - and most of the time they then win - people turn against them.
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Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It's a way of being alive for the writer.
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Bank of America is the story of some of the most ambitious, aggressive bank builders on the face of the planet.
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I make my relationships at work.
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My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.
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You write three pages over six hours, and you don't feel like you've gotten anywhere, but if you've done a beautiful metaphor or a lovely sentence, or you finally got to some moment you wanted, then that's worth it. Then you can close your computer and get a little relief.
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There's only one direction you can coast-downhill.
