“What one skill, if I developed and did it in an excellent fashion, would have the greatest positive impact on my career?”
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Brian Tracy
“Your mind is designed in such a way that you cannot have an idea on the one hand without also having the ability to bring that idea into reality on the other. The very existence of an idea in your conscious mind means that you have within you and around you the capacity to turn it into reality. The only question you have to answer is, How badly do you want it?”
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Brian Tracy
“Josh Billings wrote, “It’s not what a man knows that hurts him; it’s what he knows that isn’t true.”
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Brian Tracy
“Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the high road to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction. " Brian Tracy ”
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Brian Tracy
“The second rule of frog eating is this: If you have to eat a live frog at all, it doesn't pay to sit and look at it for very long.”
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Brian Tracy
“The most important success principle of all was stated by Elbert Hubbard, one of the most prolific writers in American history, at the beginning of the twentieth century. He said, ‘Self-discipline is the ability to do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.”
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Brian Tracy
“Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.”
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Brian Tracy
“Don't fight your thoughts. Allow them to come, but don’t cling to them. The small gaps between thoughts create the power in meditation.”
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Brian Tracy
“Every hour, stop and ask: Am I really present in this moment? If not, what are my thoughts focused on? Doing this often will help you return to the present moment.”
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Brian Tracy
“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.
Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?”
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Brian Tracy
Galileo once wrote, "You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.”
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Brian Tracy
“Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
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Brian Tracy
“The price of success must be paid in full, in advance.”
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Brian Tracy
“You perform as well as you believe yourself capable of performing. You are as effective as you believe yourself to be in whatever you do. You can never be better or different on the outside than you believe yourself to be on the inside.”
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Brian Tracy
“Leadership is the ability to elicit extraordinary performance from ordinary people.”
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Brian Tracy
