Brian Tracy Quotes
A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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You can't change the market; the market just is.
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He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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We convinced him quickly that the possibility of war was absolutely nil and continued our festivity. On the next day we were ordered to take the field.
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If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
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I am an old geezer: a grandpa kind of a guy. I was born October 19, 1931. I have gray hair, a beard, and a little pot belly. I have two children who are over 30 years old and a sweet little granddaughter who is 11 years old.
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The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
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As long as my family's OK, I'll be fine.
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I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.
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Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
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I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
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The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.
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Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.
