“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
“Epictetus, a Greek philosopher, once wrote, “Circumstances do not make the man. They merely reveal him to himself.”
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Brian Tracy
“Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than
any other.
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Brian Tracy
“the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.”
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Brian Tracy
“Rule: Resist the temptation to clear up small things first. Remember, whatever you choose to do over and over eventually becomes a habit that is hard to break. If you choose to start your day working on low-value tasks, you will soon develop the habit of always starting and working on low-value tasks. This is not the kind of habit you want to develop or keep. The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place. Once you actually begin work on a valuable task, you will be naturally motivated to continue. A part of your mind loves to be busy working on significant tasks that can really make a difference. Your job is to feed this part of your mind continually. Motivate”
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Brian Tracy
“Fear and self-doubt have always been the greatest enemies of human potential.”
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Brian Tracy
“Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success.”
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Brian Tracy
“It is impossible to succeed without failing.”
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Brian Tracy
“Refuse to complain about your problems. Keep them to yourself. As speaker-humorist Ed Foreman says, "You should never share your problems with others because 80 percent of people don't care about them anyway, and the other 20 percent are kind of glad that you've got them in the first place.”
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Brian Tracy
“The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.”
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Brian Tracy
“your ability to select your most important task at each moment, and then to get started on that task and to get it done both quickly and well, will probably have more of an impact on your success than any other quality or skill you can develop.”
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Brian Tracy
“There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.”
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Brian Tracy
“The only way to overcome your fears is to "do the thing you fear," as Emerson wrote, "and the death of fear is certain.”
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Brian Tracy
“Never talk about the content. Talk about the outcome.”
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Brian Tracy
“There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason.” —MARK TWAIN”
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Brian Tracy
