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."Brian Tracy
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
Harold Coffin -
I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
Barbara McClintock -
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.
Hal Borland -
I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
Ion Tiriac -
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.
H. P. Lovecraft -
Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
Wayne Rogers
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
Dag Hammarskjold -
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.
K. D. Lang -
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.
Zooey Deschanel -
I know what poverty is.
Manny Pacquiao -
Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
Samuel Adams -
If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
Nate Silver
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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.
Ha-Joon Chang -
I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times.
Carlos Ponce -
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.
Abraham Verghese -
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.
Larry Smith -
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.
Forest Whitaker -
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.
Val McDermid
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There would really be no reason to get up in the morning if Founders Fund was not willing to invest in companies that were doing important things, great businesses that very few people believe in.
Luke Nosek -
When I think about protest, I worry so much that people think about it only as standing in the streets. And I say that as someone who has been standing in the streets of cities across the country - but at the root of it is this idea of telling the truth in public.
DeRay Mckesson -
I've had people following me home or standing outside my house. It's strange. I just don't think people were meant to be worshipped or idolised.
Matthew Morrison -
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."
Brian Tracy