Brian Tracy Quotes

Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day

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• I think India is very passionate about films. It's almost a second religion back home. Due to that, I think film stars are - are really held in great esteem. Not that we're complaining, but I think with that comes a lot of responsibility.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Great
  • Home
  • Responsibility

• I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Writing
  • Ideas
  • Down

• I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Different
  • Character
  • Myself

• My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Life
  • Long
  • Happy

• I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • Character
  • Job
  • Myself

• Even before I did stand-up, I've always been the kind of guy - and I talk about it on stage - who says I like people and I always look for the good in people. I say, 'Every person has something good about them, if you can just find it.'

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Problem
  • Effort
  • Worth

• You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • Work
  • God

• We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Remember
  • Revolution
  • Right

• The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Important
  • Problems

• I just want people to know they are the masters of their own fortune and misfortune. A lot of us think that doctors and drugs are going to control and help us, but the reality is we're our own best doctor.

  

  Dan Hill
  • People
  • Help
  • Reality

• One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • People
  • Great
  • Question

• Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Business
  • Learning
  • Best

• I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Period
  • Professional
  • Intelligent

• No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Life
  • Power
  • Change

• If I played tennis, I had to be in a dance class. I always had multiple activities, so I never had to count on any one of them to feel successful.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Dance
  • Successful
  • Tennis

• I've been so lucky and blessed because words and stuff come so easy to me. I have a good memory.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
  • Words
  • Blessed

• I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years.

  

  Donna Leon
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Friendship

• [Washington, DC] feels like you're watching performance art. A lot of the time. I don't believe them, I don't believe what they say, I don't think they're being absolutely sincere. I think it's performance art. And most of them are bad actors.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• Art, although produced by man's hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source out of our soul.....My sympathies in the literary as well as in the artistic field are drawn most strongly to those artists in whom I see most the working of the soul.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Art
  • Soul
  • Artist

• Living longer is about loving longer, learning longer, teaching longer, connecting longer, if we figure out the supports and infrastructure to make all of that possible — and it is completely within reach.

  

  Ai-jen Poo
  • Support
  • Learning
  • Teaching

• Revealing secrets can bring us pain or get us into trouble, but worse pain and worse trouble await us if we keep silent...Revealing secrets can bring us pain or get us into trouble, but worse pain and worse trouble await us if we keep silent we become habitually untruthful. The door to our creativity closes. gr we become habitually untruthful. The door to our creativity closes.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Pain
  • Creativity
  • Trouble

• Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Achieve
  • Excellence
  • Strive