Brian Tracy Quotes
To be successful, you need to really work hard. And every study in the last 50 years says that successful people say, "I am not smarter than anybody else. I just want to work harder and longer."
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Making music is fantastic.
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Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
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I know what poverty is.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.
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As someone from a developing country, I have a problem with rich countries thinking they can tell us anything, simply because they are giving money.
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When I was young I would spend more money than I should with my credit card but my father cut it off, so I had to find creative ways of making money.
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Your forties is not the time to be thinking about getting pregnant.
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I try to play like I did when I was a young boy playing in my garden. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's not so good, but I try to always make sure I give my best to help the team, even if I am not having the best game myself.
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But I'm always trying to plan ahead too and in doing so, and in working on this album, I've met a lot people that I hope to be involved with, on their records and in their situations.
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The road can get rocky, but you have to find ways to work through it.
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To be successful, you need to really work hard. And every study in the last 50 years says that successful people say, "I am not smarter than anybody else. I just want to work harder and longer."
