Brian Tracy Quotes
Indecision is a major time waster; 80% of decisions should be made the first time they come up
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'
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Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.
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I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.
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Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
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It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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The coffee's good in Italy. It's good in Spain. It's good in Istanbul. The coffee's not so good in America.
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Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.
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I have been recognized from 'Mad Men,' and it's so cool when that happens because I am so proud to be a part of the show.
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Everyone [in higher education] was what I call drillers of deeper wells. These academics sit at the bottom of a deep well and they look up and see a sliver of the sky. They know everything about that little sliver of sky and nothing else. I scan all my horizons.
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One of my favourite exhibitions is called 'Do It,' which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago.
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Indecision is a major time waster; 80% of decisions should be made the first time they come up
