I love the sense of looking at the sad, paltry, and yet very familiar spectacle that we must make from moment to moment in our lives, and in our frenzy, as something that's as out there as alien life.
Tracy K. Smith
Related As we wander, grieving, in yet another dark moment, amid our pain we must struggle to remember the r... EPHRAIM MIRVIS That's SHIT! How do you remove it? You just put it inside the trash, easy as that. DEYTH BANGER We project based on where we our in our life and our beliefs at that moment; however, when we shift ... WILIAM CONSTANTINE Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by th... EMMET FOX What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there'... LADY GAGA The moment that I realized my name was going to be said in the same sentence as children and sex, th... PAUL REUBENS Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us. AMIT RAY When we fail to tend to the fragilities of a flower as we become distracted by the noise of our mind... FORREST CURRAN I was a supporting character in other people's lives, which seemed right and familiar to me. I w... ALLEGRA HUSTON Our dreams and goals are never completely realized. They are always there before
our eyes, but alway... JACQUELINE ONASSIS If we only arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trus... RAINER MARIA RILKE This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS At any given moment, it's not about where we are supposed to be. It's about what work, which... YEHUDA BERG Every moment in our lives brings the opportunity to love and appreciate this beautiful magical life. DEBASISH MRIDHA Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, ... IDA SCOTT TAYLOR MCKINNEY The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment. LAUREN KATE We wanted to do a bed-and-breakfast for years. We wanted to make a change in our lives and do our ow... DONNA AROLD I think music is about our internal life. It's part of the way people touch each other. That'... BRIAN MAY The men and women who make up a plane's crew put their lives in jeopardy each time they fly. It&... DAVE REICHERT Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as... ECKHART TOLLE As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can. VINCE MCMAHON In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get. GAYLE GARDNER What matters is what we do with the life we have. CARRIE RYAN Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever." "Forever has no mea... ELLEN HOPKINS I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live. THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now. JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination. RALPH WALDO EMERSON The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. Whe... THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress... SARAH JIO Our deepest sense of contentment comes in those times when we have forgotten about all the things we... GWEN RANDALL-YOUNG Looking back at our lives, the unbelievable thing is that despite all the times when things felt so ... JOHN MARK GREEN Could it be, I wonder, that there is such a thing as a wantologist, someone we can hire to figure ou... ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD I'm interested in all forms of performance, yet I think it's difficult to be as equally tale... FELICITY JONES A very slight change in our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the ... GEORGE MOORE For that moment at least they seemed to give up external plans, theories, and codes, even the inesca... THOMAS PYNCHON Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a... KILROY J. OLDSTER We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alter... BEN OKRI As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will st... RAHM EMANUEL As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem ... JOE BACA There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life... SOREN KIERKEGAARD I'm very, very bullish about our prospects, and as I tell our board, as I tell our employees, th... STEVE BALLMER There are so many things we do in life that define the real meaning of our lives. There are so many ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It's what Shakespeare's mission was - to illuminate our thoughts and struggles and bring abo... MANDY PATINKIN Belief, like fear or love, is a force to be understood as we understand the theory of relativity and... DAVID MITCHELL There's something in the moment when you can make them laugh or cry and show and incredibly comp... GEDDE WATANABE Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it. SHARON SALZBERG That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM When I go in the studio, I put myself into a place where I'm feeling something I want to portray... JAMIE XX The point is to be in the moment, not miss the moment while trying to capture it. SHERALYN PRATT Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to... TRINIDAD HUNT Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., ou... THICH NHAT HANH The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding o... WARREN BENNIS The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding o... WARREN G. BENNIS There is that awful moment when you realize that you're falling in love. That should be the most... HELEN MIRREN But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the mome... NASTASSJA KINSKI There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your... RICHARD DAWKINS We experienced a deconstruction of our personal lives. Coming home to a familiar setting and being a... BRANDON CURTIS We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can. KAREN TODD SCARPULLA That is our current problem. At the moment, I assume that the German grand prix will go ahead as pla... DIETER GUMMER when we reach the point when our lives take on their final shape as in a novel we can identify our h... ORHAN PAMUK I think love's exciting and happy, as well as being able to make you sad. BILLY IDOL We're all, whether we like it or not, gonna have to deal with bereavement at some point in our l... DAVID OYELOWO These are the days that must happen to you. WALT WHITMAN If there's one thing I learned, it's that nobody is here forever. You have to live for the moment, e... SIMONE ELKELES I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each oth... MADONNA CICCONE Wherever you are, be there. If you can be fully present now, you’ll know what it means to live. STEVE GOODIER It's like we took our aggressions and shaped something positive from them in a very direct manner. T... EDDIE VEDDER Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you... TERENCE T. GORSKI I can't do any more 'Peep Show' because of my loyalties in Los Angeles to 'Two And A... SOPHIE WINKLEMAN Mindfulness is not entering into another planet. It is making you good at what you do. It is restori... AMIT RAY Some we proudly display on our arms, while others we shyly conceal. Tattoo the moments of sorrow as ... FORREST CURRAN In proper meditation, we learn to watch our thoughts. We can then consciously live in this moment th... HOWARD MANN We Don't live a moment for long, thats why we keep it as a memory. A memory to remember that moment ... RONI POLUS Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out... PAUL CEZANNE Do something in every given moment to make your future worth meaningful. Create your present as prou... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA We can easily be depleted from life and if we are truly lucky, we have that one friend who can reple... KAREN A. BAQUIRAN In our development, as we grow throughout our lives, the structure of our beliefs becomes very compl... DON MIGUEL RUIZ For a moment we glared at each other, stubborn as cats on the stable wall, full of mutual resentment... PHILIPPA GREGORY There was definitely something that was missing in our lives that we needed to fulfill. Actually, I ... FRANK WATKINS As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless... GARY HAMEL We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our ol... ARTHUR ASHE I think that's the thing I learned at 'Saturday Night Live' - any time I would try and s... BILL HADER There is a divine moment in our lives when we all become one. It's called procreation, and it is... DIRK BENEDICT In that inevitable, excruciatingly human moment, we are offered a powerful choice. This choice is pe... WAYNE MULLER How sooner we met a good partner in life it's better from that moment our days will be more smoother... JAN JANSEN EASY BRANCHES As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to f... ECKHART TOLLE I propose not our enemies as an example for our general imitation, yet, as their navy is the best re... JOHN PAUL JONES I've always championed women in politics. We just get stuck in; politics isn't a game. The d... THERESA MAY Every time we sin, it causes chaos in our lives; maybe not at that very moment, but eventually it al... ROBIN BERTRAM I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they sho... BILLY BRAGG It's a very performative thing, grief. As with so much in modern life, I think there's a who... DARIN STRAUSS In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, tha... JANE ADDAMS The truly adult view [...] is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose ... RICHARD DAWKINS We live aware of God moment by moment. He is not part of our lives; He is our life. CRAIG GROESCHEL At the end of the day, the quality of life is all we have, and it's just as important to that lo... JOHN MACKEY If we deny the grief its right in our lives, then we must question the love for which the grief is s... W. SCOTT LINEBERRY As a pastor in a Protestant church, my whole ministry centers on the conviction that by grace we are... KEVIN DEYOUNG
More Tracy K. Smith
I work with a lot of young people who have poems that are changing their lives, that they're eag... TRACY K. SMITH I feel most alive, most electric with faith, breath, and courage, when I think of God as a current t... TRACY K. SMITH We all need poetry. The moments in our lives that are characterized by language that has to do with ... TRACY K. SMITH I think humans have always felt watched back by whatever is out there flickering in the distance. Wh... TRACY K. SMITH Lately, I've been thinking about the difference between poetry and prose, and as I've experi... TRACY K. SMITH I don't know how anyone can see the Hubble 'Deep Field' image and not feel like somethin... TRACY K. SMITH When my father died, those years when he was working on the Hubble came back to me, and it seemed fi... TRACY K. SMITH A question is a pursuit, an invitation to envision and explore a series of possibilities, to struggl... TRACY K. SMITH everything/ that ever was still is, somewhere TRACY K. SMITH I grew up in northern California in a town called Fairfield, which is kind of exactly between San Fr... TRACY K. SMITH The students really enjoyed the response from the adult day care center. I think that's when it real... TRACY SMITH Faith is the only thing we have right now. TRACY SMITH Kansas.gov provides a user-friendly gateway for citizens to efficiently interact with government. Th... TRACY SMITH It's truly unbelievable. Remember, this is one of the beacons of New Orleans: the convention center!... TRACY SMITH The schedule is something we wanted to address. We think with the addition of Miami (Fla.) and some ... TRACY SMITH We're hoping that this will help with communication with staff, students and very much so with the p... TRACY SMITH So the content will be more dynamic which will lead to more people using the site. TRACY SMITH We discovered that more than 90 percent of [the] students have Internet access, so we're trying to p... TRACY SMITH We have a young team. TRACY SMITH We really need to grasp the concept that extra bases matter, you can't be balking guys over and wild... TRACY SMITH We know that you're adopting a baby girl from India. TRACY SMITH I was hoping for just a note or a phone call. Once Scott found out, this is just the type of guy he ... TRACY SMITH He's not Superman, so we're going to treat him like any other guy. Hopefully we can do a good job of... TRACY SMITH We have to steal bases to be successful. We're not a big three-run homer team, and speed shows up to... TRACY SMITH There's always an element of surprise associated with it. TRACY SMITH He's very confident at the plate right now. He's seeing the ball very well. TRACY SMITH We need to have better situational hitting. We could have lost all three of those games, so we need ... TRACY SMITH I think the most amazing thing was that Ryan has done so tremendously well academically. Most people... TRACY SMITH Men, in fact, are excited and looking forward to settling down and having families and being true pa... IAN K. SMITH Women want to feel wanted. Men want to feel needed. IAN K. SMITH People think that you can save calories by eating fewer meals a day, but it works just the opposite:... IAN K. SMITH I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away. IAN K. SMITH The critical part with meal spacing is that you stabilize your hormones so that you do not have thos... IAN K. SMITH Death just comes, not happiness. Because when you're trying to find happiness, you're trying... IAN K. SMITH Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness. IAN K. SMITH A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues suc... IAN K. SMITH Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in... IAN K. SMITH The idea behind diet confusion is, you have to keep your body off-kilter. So by changing the type of... IAN K. SMITH People have to realize that dieting is not a sprint, it's a marathon. If you celebrate the small... IAN K. SMITH I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness. IAN K. SMITH Intelligent, successful, attractive people can be intimidating. They force us to hold a mirror to ou... IAN K. SMITH People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the p... IAN K. SMITH For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestria... HOWARD K. SMITH A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what. K 'Killer Joe' was originally written in 1991 and first produced in '93 at the Next Theate... TRACY LETTS I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me. TRACY MORGAN People live too much of their lives on email or the Internet or text messages these days. We're ... TRACY MORGAN Maybe it's naive to say, but it almost seems like, in the past, people tried to sell you somethi... TRACY CHAPMAN I'm not a child star, but you could say that I've grown up on TV. I went from being an unkno... TRACY MORGAN Listen, Bruce Lee fought out of anger. That's why they call it the 'Fists of Fury.' Mich... TRACY MORGAN Michael's the ultimate entertainer. After Michael Jackson, it's Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra... TRACY MORGAN Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture. SPENCER TRACY Oftentimes, heavy weights can tear the muscle fiber causing it to bulk, but using a lighter weight f... TRACY ANDERSON You can't hold me to the same standard as the president or a school teacher. I'm just a come... TRACY MORGAN Eighty percent of life's satisfaction comes from meaningful relationships. BRIAN TRACY Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest
resource is your time. BRIAN TRACY Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in
order to guarantee your future... BRIAN TRACY Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a
goal or goals which they really... BRIAN TRACY I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active... BRIAN TRACY Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time. BRIAN TRACY The market is reassured that Bush didn't do anything wrong. ADAM TRACY All of the conversation is how he's going to write it. ADAM TRACY [Wednesday] could rival the Friday after Thanksgiving for the slowest day of the year. ADAM TRACY Volume has been pretty light. Tomorrow could rival the Friday after Thanksgiving for the slowest day... ADAM TRACY Everyone's worry on the economy was jobs. Today's report was unexpected by most people and it allaye... ADAM TRACY That's the No. 1 fear, and you've had pretty much every Fed governor come out in the last two weeks ... ADAM TRACY Storm worries got things going. That kind of put the buyers on hold. ADAM TRACY As a human race, we lost and we are still losing a lot of humanity in the process of progress TRACY SILLATO Humans can be inhuman and greed is to blame for it. TRACY SILLATO Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highro... BRIAN TRACY It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going. BRIAN TRACY Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really... BRIAN TRACY Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality. BRIAN TRACY The Future belongs to the competent get good, get better, be the best ! BRIAN TRACY Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses. BRIAN TRACY Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others. BRIAN TRACY You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you. BRIAN TRACY The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a wor... BRIAN TRACY You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used thr... BRIAN TRACY The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and ... BRIAN TRACY I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active.... BRIAN TRACY There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails. SPENCER TRACY When you engage in systematic, purposeful actin, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum,... BRIAN TRACY Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing... BRIAN TRACY Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out ... BRIAN TRACY Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person. BRIAN TRACY Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better tha... BRIAN TRACY Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience. BRIAN TRACY Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy. BRIAN TRACY We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves. BRIAN TRACY No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be success... BRIAN TRACY Successful people are simply those with success habits. BRIAN TRACY Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you ... BRIAN TRACY How much we like ourselves governs our performance. BRIAN TRACY I know a lot of people think it's monotonous, down the black lines over and over, but it's not if yo... TRACY CAULKINS I'm a hopeful cynic. TRACY CHAPMAN To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis. TRACY AUSTIN All successful people are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every resp... BRIAN TRACY Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future... BRIAN TRACY The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more lik... BRIAN TRACY The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this i... BRIAN TRACY Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are alway... BRIAN TRACY The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image. BRIAN TRACY Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true. BRIAN TRACY We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives. BRIAN TRACY Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are... BRIAN TRACY Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheel... BRIAN TRACY I love working with Alec Baldwin. He's one of the five greatest actors ever to live. TRACY MORGAN Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor. BRIAN TRACY Michael and I had great role models. Though his father has passed away, his parents had an amazingly... TRACY POLLAN Younger women tend to be busier, wearing more layers and more make-up. I don't know if it's ... TRACY CHEVALIER I would love to try action films. TRACY MORGAN I have friends who are black, white, purple, gay, straight, Martian, yellow, old, and young. I have ... TRACY MORGAN I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more act... BRIAN TRACY You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you... BRIAN TRACY It's like going to the zoo when you come to my house. I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, p... TRACY MORGAN I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider. All of them are... TRACY MORGAN I don't believe moviegoers don't have patience. Screenwriters are told a scene can't be ... TRACY LETTS If you want a dancer's body, dance. Dance aerobics is my favourite cardio. It's very frustra... TRACY ANDERSON If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwh... BRIAN TRACY The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more th... BRIAN TRACY The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance. BRIAN TRACY The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance. BRIAN TRACY Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're... BRIAN TRACY Shoes are the finishing touch on any outfit and it is important to complete a look with the perfect ... TRACY REESE There are some concerns that are universal. Everyone wants to be loved, and everyone wants to feel l... TRACY CHAPMAN There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Eve... BRIAN TRACY You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for y... BRIAN TRACY Successful people are simply those with successful habits. BRIAN TRACY Comedians are the monkeys of acting. When you go to the zoo, everybody loves the monkey exhibit. TRACY MORGAN Women with low self-esteem love bad boys. Women who have work to do love bad boys. Women who love th... TRACY MCMILLAN You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to ... TRACY KIDDER If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you w... BRIAN TRACY Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that ... BRIAN TRACY If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your ... BRIAN TRACY People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people withou... BRIAN TRACY It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going. BRIAN TRACY All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal... BRIAN TRACY Caring - about people, about things, about life - is an act of maturity. TRACY MCMILLAN The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear. BRIAN TRACY Tracy Morgan is subdued. I'm cool. I'm chilled out. TRACY MORGAN 'Wayne of Gotham' is very much a father-and-son exploration. We've always seen Thomas Wa... TRACY HICKMAN The way popular music is categorized and formatted cuts down on everyone's options. And although... TRACY CHAPMAN My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listen... TRACY CHAPMAN I feel that as long as you're honest, you have the opportunity to grow. It's when you shut d... TRACY MCMILLAN I don't believe in storks. I know they don't deliver babies; they deliver pickles. TRACY MORGAN Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortabl... BRIAN TRACY After the success of 'August,' there were people saying I should change my life. And maybe I... TRACY LETTS Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are alway... BRIAN TRACY Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally an... TRACY CHAPMAN I grew up with music in the house. I was told I could sing as soon as I started talking. Everybody i... TRACY CHAPMAN People are just way too sensitive. You couldn't have a show like 'Archie Bunker' on TV. ... TRACY MORGAN I tell people to be thankful that Madonna is showing that it's possible to be ageless - people s... TRACY ANDERSON You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve ... BRIAN TRACY There's ups and downs of any job. If you worked at the post office, there's ups and downs. Y... TRACY MORGAN I've always been fascinated by the Norsemen, their lives, history and cosmology. The more we stu... TRACY HICKMAN I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didn't happen. TRACY ANDERSON Bad news travels at the speed of light; good news travels like molasses. TRACY MORGAN I think of masculine and feminine energy like two sides to a battery. There's a plus side and a ... TRACY MCMILLAN I'm a blunt person, not mean-spirited. I come from a place of love, but I'm interested in be... TRACY MCMILLAN Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive... TRACY MORGAN Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabi... BRIAN TRACY I'm a big, big movie fan. I watch 'The Ten Commandments' and the original 'Planet of... TRACY MORGAN Even though on the outside we glittered like gold, inside we were almost as black as coal. Sometimes... TRACY KRIMMER Sometime between when the Summer of Love ended and the Summer of Sam began, America became a nation ... TRACY MCMILLAN I'm a hopeful cynic. TRACY CHAPMAN I love '30 Rock' because Tina Fey allows me to fly over the cuckoo nest once a week. TRACY MORGAN I do stand up sometimes out of anger. Sometimes the greatest stuff comes from a dark place. TRACY MORGAN Now love's the only thing thats free. We must take it where it's found. Pretty soon it may be costly... TRACY CHAPMAN My older brother was born, who was a cripple, then I was born, and my sister was born, the only girl... TRACY MORGAN Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality. BRIAN TRACY When you're in the spotlight, people want to dissect you and then put you back together the way ... TRACY MORGAN Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He ... TRACY KIDDER Cool is the enemy of funny. You can't be cool and be funny at the same time. Only Eddie Murphy c... TRACY MORGAN Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event. BRIAN TRACY Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that e... BRIAN TRACY I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs... TRACY CHAPMAN Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are alway... BRIAN TRACY To sit on Mike Gonzalez until the ninth inning might have put you in a position where you don't get ... JIM TRACY The nature of the beast is that film is a director's medium. It's not a Tracy Letts play, it... TRACY LETTS My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life aft... TRACY MORGAN Sometimes I think we're exposed to things we shouldn't be exposed to too early. I think that... TRACY MORGAN You have to be highly intelligent to get away with a dumb joke. That takes a pretty smart fella. TRACY MORGAN I mentioned that I received a scholarship to Episcopalian school, and the model for the school was &... TRACY CHAPMAN I was raised in a Baptist tradition, but then I went to an Episcopalian high school, and they were v... TRACY CHAPMAN Some people do stage and film. Some people are film actors, and some people are stage actors. I'... TRACY LETTS I'm not the least bit shy about suggesting things to my players that make a lot of sense. I don't th... JIM TRACY I have some big shoes to fill. I am looking to hit it head on. Greenland has had a lot of success an... TRACY SUTTON When I write a play, and we read it for the first time, the great fear is that everybody is going to... TRACY LETTS I want to be an example of a guy who made something of himself out of nothing. A guy who overcame th... TRACY MORGAN When you are older, you realize that no one was every thinking about you at all. BRIAN TRACY To be wealthy, you must develop a burning desire for wealth and financial
independence. BRIAN TRACY I do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clea... TRACY KIDDER It's muddled. To be as muddled as it is now is ... intriguing. JIM TRACY We want to offer our customers the convenience of coming into the store and shopping when their busy... TRACY PAWELSKI [This free yearly concert at Ford Pavilion in Beaumont, Texas, on Sunday, September 4, 2005 at 6PM, ... TRACY BYRD You don't get far with people by judging them, and one of the nice things of my profession is I don'... TRACY KIDDER I'm obsessed with my PlayStation. I'll come home and plug away at 'Fallout' for a co... TRACY SPIRIDAKOS So little is known about this illegal program that it's akin to legislating in the dark. TRACY SCHMALER When you have God-given talent, I think that that kind of hinders your practice habits and that'... TRACY MCGRADY