Brian Tracy Quotes

Until you commit your goals to paper, you have intentions that are seeds without soil.

Brian Tracy

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• The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • American
  • Support

• Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Live
  • Soul
  • Man

• I don't believe in the 100 crore club.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Believe
  • Club

• The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.

  

  Gavid Hood
  • People
  • Life
  • Truth

• If taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal representation where they are laid, are we not reduced from the character of free subjects to the miserable state of tributary slaves? We claim British rights not by charter only! We are born to them.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Character
  • Free
  • Legal

• Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Time
  • Great
  • American

• My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Great
  • Dad
  • Kind

• It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Air
  • Down
  • Windows

• My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • People
  • Life
  • Husband

• I was a complete outsider in high school.

  

  Karen O
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.

  

  Orlando Aloysius Battista
  • Love
  • Weakness
  • Greatest

• I'm ready for a different America.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Different
  • America
  • Ready

• You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Work
  • Style
  • Romantic

• It used to be that when an actress reached thirty, she was considered almost washed up.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Up
  • She
  • Almost

• I do just genuinely believe Chris Hemsworth is a 6'3, more muscular version of me. And more handsome, but I try.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Handsome

• I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Good
  • Money
  • Business

• We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Religion
  • Learn

• Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Work
  • Family
  • Home

• Having an investor on your board of directors who is naive about public markets or finds them complex or scary is non-optimal.

  

  Bill Gurley
  • Scary

• You know, also I, you know, I was on those birth control pills and my breasts were like, they hurt... and, you know, it was like they blew up like. You know, they wouldn't fit into any of my dresses. I had to quit taking those birth control pills... This was like - I mean they were like, I thought they should be photographed really... So they were, for immortality. (On being photographed nude playing chess with Marcel Duchamp at Duchamp's 1963 retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of Art.)

  

  Eve Babitz
  • Hurt
  • Dresses
  • Immortality

• I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Future

• There are goals that I had set out for myself as an artist. I have accomplished some of them - becoming accepted all over the world - however, other parts of my goals have not been completed.

  

  Jimmy Cliff
  • World
  • Goals

• One of my goals in making music is to make the world seem bigger, and life seem larger.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Life
  • Music
  • Goals

• Until you commit your goals to paper, you have intentions that are seeds without soil.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Goal
  • Goals
  • Paper