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 think that crime is a good vehicle for looking at society in general because the nature of the crime novel means that you draw on a wide group of social possibilities.
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One has no friend who has many friends.
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I've stepped more into my womanhood, I'm a mother now, I'm having a beautiful relationship as a wife and as a friend.
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I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.
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Women have different challenges. You have to be willing to put in the hours and work harder.
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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."
