Brian Tracy Quotes
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
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America preaches integration and practices segregation.
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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Many are called but few get up.
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Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.
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After much thought and prayer, I have come to my own personal conclusion that we shouldn't tell people who they can love or who they can marry.
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I was a big aviation buff as a boy.
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If you want to be the best, find out what the top people do & do it yourself.
