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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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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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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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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I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America, a discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
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Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
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I've been fortunate, I guess: I've gotten to play a lot of very diverse roles for quite a long time. But in the beginning, I was thinking, 'I'm not gonna do certain characters. I will be willing to say no and live on a couch.' And I was really happy.
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I don't care how advanced technology gets. I don't think that there's anything that can replace looking someone in the eyes, touching their hand, you know?
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People laugh at me. Sometimes I know why, and sometimes I don't.
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Things can end badly, as they sometimes do in life. But if they do, then we know that something is wrong, just as we know it when a piece of music doesn’t resolve itself properly at the end. We know that. We just do. And so we prefer harmony.
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People just wanna talk. They wanna create negative things about you and your life and make up things. You can't let them affect you!
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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."
