Brian Tracy Quotes
When we look back over the landscape of our lives from any particular vantage point, we will find that the most valuable and the most precious things that we have ever enjoyed or experienced are caught up in the quality and quantity of the loving relationships that we have enjoyed. That if any time of life we look back and we have accomplished anything else in the world, financially or materially or politically or any other way, and we do not have high-quality loving relationships to fall back on and to remember and to think about and to enjoy, to that degree we have failed as human beings.
Quotes to Explore
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Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
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I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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There are certain things that are too painful for people to even write about sometimes, and there are certain things that are too hard to read about again.
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The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
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Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic.
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When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
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The tabloids so easily throw people under the bus for a one-day sensation on the newsstand but sadly don't care about the long-term damage it does to those involved.
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I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible.
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I don't think I miss anything by not watching television.
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Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action like to say, Those who can, do, those who cant, teach, forgetting that those who teach get to write the history books.
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As kids, our experiences shape our opinions of ourselves and the world around us, and that's who we become as adults.
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When we look back over the landscape of our lives from any particular vantage point, we will find that the most valuable and the most precious things that we have ever enjoyed or experienced are caught up in the quality and quantity of the loving relationships that we have enjoyed. That if any time of life we look back and we have accomplished anything else in the world, financially or materially or politically or any other way, and we do not have high-quality loving relationships to fall back on and to remember and to think about and to enjoy, to that degree we have failed as human beings.
