Brian Tracy Quotes
One of the things we know is that you cannot motivate other people, but you can remove the obstacles that stop them from motivating themselves. All motivation is self-motivation.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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I'm interested in fashion; I buy fairly good pieces, and I think as I've gotten older, I've pared down a lot.
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I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count!
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with base notes, or dark lake with the treble.
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And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership.
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Nikola Tesla spent one of his most productive years in Colorado Springs.
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I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.
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In the old covenants the people were sprinkled with blood of calves without, in their bodies, to bind them to keep the law; else we were bound to just damnation, for the breaking of it.
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One of the things we know is that you cannot motivate other people, but you can remove the obstacles that stop them from motivating themselves. All motivation is self-motivation.
