Brian Tracy Quotes
Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.
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Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.
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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.
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My work... is my legacy.
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In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.
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Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy.
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Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
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Just as I lay back, she sat up. I sat up, and she flopped back down. Awkward. That was my every move when it came to her. Now we were both lying down, staring up at the blue sky.
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Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.
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Real leaders have to live a paradoxical life, where they must break the rules in order to maintain them. If your expectations are high, you're setting yourself up for disillusionment. The land of governance is paved with gray streets, not black or white ones.
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It came up after doing St. Jimmy on Broadway for American Idiot. I loved acting, and so I just kept my options open.
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Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.
