Brian Tracy Quotes
The very act of accepting responsibility short-circuits and cancels out any negative emotions you may be experiencing.
Quotes to Explore
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I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
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I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.
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I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.
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I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.
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When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.
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When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.
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I see four principles as laying the foundations for the kind of economic recovery Europe needs: fairness, efficiency, solidarity and growth.
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It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
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Certain cricketers are meant to play Test cricket.
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He had at last discovered that love had no pith in it, and that the projection of one own's feelings upon the images of a beloved was in the long run, an act of self-mutilation.
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A curious thing about this rarefied world is that bloggers are almost unfailingly contemptuous toward everyone except one another.
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Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like to call CanLit. It's elementary, plot-driven, character-rich story-telling at its best.
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Even with the beauty stories we put out, we saw there was an opportunity to address issues of representation, identity, self-expression. We created the community that we wanted to have at 'Teen Vogue.' We were willing to lose some to have more.
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Homeschooling has given us some wonderful flexibility and some great life experiences, especially with our son.
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The very act of accepting responsibility short-circuits and cancels out any negative emotions you may be experiencing.
