Brian Tracy Quotes

If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.

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• It's one thing to have forced time off as an actor, and another thing when you actually say, 'I don't want to read anything, and I don't want to talk to anybody.'

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Want
  • Actor

• We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • People
  • Politics
  • Seeing

• That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.

  

  Halsey
  • Music
  • Space
  • Fall

• We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Writing
  • Live
  • Now

• Like, I'll wear a bright sweater with pants that are a more classic color.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Color
  • Classic
  • Sweater

• When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • Country
  • Truth

• I was supremely fortunate to do several projects that I'm really excited about. So within all that, there's a lot going on this year. I'm excited about 2016.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Year
  • Going
  • Within

• Our soldiers and people form one family. United, we may count on victory.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • People
  • Family
  • May

• I suppose where I am sort of reflects the work I have chosen to do. Are there occasional frustrations because I can't work with a certain director because it's a big studio movie, and I don't have enough of a studio profile? The answer is yes. But generall... generally, I have the career I have chosen myself.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Career

• What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Today
  • Want
  • Period

• I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Hope
  • Dead
  • Icon

• You don't train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly people who want to help others optimize their physical and psychological health, and then have them run a claims-processing operation for insurance companies.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • School
  • Help

• Protectionism has to be avoided. Protectionism is not only on goods but also in the area of services. Financial protectionism is also bad and should be avoided.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Bad
  • Financial
  • Only

• The Prodigal Son at least walked home on his own feet. But who can duly adore that Love which will open the high gates to a prodigal who is brought in kicking, struggling, resentful, and darting his eyes in every direction for a chance of escape?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Home
  • High
  • Eyes

• Crime, especially crime involving money, reflects the gap between the expectation to provide and the ability to provide… If we really want men to commit crime as infrequently as women, we can start by not expecting men to provide for women more than we expect women to provide for men.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Money

• Praise the Lord for all good things. We blew their balls into shards of dust,Into shards of fucking dust. We did it. Now I want you to come over here and kiss me on the mouth.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Good
  • Kiss

• I recently became vegan because I felt that as a Jewish lesbian, I wasn’t part of a small enough minority. So now I’m a Jewish lesbian vegan.

  

  Carol Leifer
  • Small
  • Lesbian
  • Vegan

• When the weather changes and hurricanes hit, nobody believes that the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed. It's the same stock market with the same mechanisms and the same people.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • People
  • Believe
  • Stock

• Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.

  

  Daniel Goleman
  • Good
  • Effort

• I am going to that country which I have all my life wished to see.

  

  William Blake
  • Country
  • My Life
  • Wished

• What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Work
  • Spirit
  • Matter

• If you look over the course of a hundred years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Country
  • Together
  • Serious

• If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Fly
  • Ifs
  • Eagles