Brian Tracy Quotes
Lack of clarity is the number-one time-waster. Always be asking, 'What am I trying to do? How am I trying to do it.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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Humans have 3 percent human error, and a lot of companies can't afford to be wrong 3 percent of the time anymore, so we close that 3 percent gap with some of the technologies. The AI we've developed doesn't make mistakes.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.
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I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
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I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.
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Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.
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White racial grievance enjoys automatic credibility, and even when disproven, it is never disqualifying of its bearers.
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One year, I went to Cannes with the film 'The Indian Runner' that Sean Penn directed. Everyone else in the film was all the same height, and on the red carpet, when they were taking photos, none of them would stand next to me, and I totally got it.
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I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.
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After the first album, I spent a lot of time being like, 'I'm not really a singer.' That kind of mentality doesn't help.
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I made the mistake of watching 'A.I.' on cable the week they showed it about 792 times, and I ended up watching it every time it was on.
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I hate to be fatalistic about it, but alcoholism, it's just in your genes. We had some of it in my family, and it just got me.
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Lack of clarity is the number-one time-waster. Always be asking, 'What am I trying to do? How am I trying to do it.
