Brian Tracy Quotes
Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion with which it was made has passed.
Quotes to Explore
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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I still have a young attitude.
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'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.
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I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.
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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.
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Music is like my security blanket.
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Be inspired but not proud.
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I have a box of things from Becca, my high school girlfriend, and Vanessa; and each one of them was love. I have the notes, the valentines, 20 mixed tapes, all of it. It's important to keep that stuff.
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You grow and evolve and as you do that, your art hopefully reflects that change and that growth.
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There is superficiality to Hollywood, and yes, it is charming. Of course there is sunshine, but there is also a dark side. It's a difficult place if you don't know people, and if you can't drive, you will find it lonely. You have to create your own bubble.
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The older I grow the less I esteem mere ideas. In politics, particularly, they are transient and unimportant. . . . There are only men who have character and men who lack it.
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Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion with which it was made has passed.
