Brian Tracy Quotes

I would never give advice, because I would feel very presumptuous.

Sometimes when an idea flashes, you distrust it because it seems too easy. You qualify it with all kinds of evasive phrases because you’re timid about it. But often, this turns out to be the best idea of all.

I don't think I'm in any position to give anybody advice about anything.

For someone so conflicted, who am I to give advice to anybody? It’s such a funny, grandiose idea

Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.

Wow. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.

There wasn't a time where I felt fearful that I couldn't make the best decisions possible.

Neophyte, n. There are millions upon millions of people who have been through this before-- why is it that no one can give my good advice?

I'm as highly insecure as a human can be.

I had no idea what I was doing, I had no idea where I was going, but at some point I stopped — when to keep going would seem like I was going too far.

If you still have to ask, shame on you

But I didn’t dare. That has always been my trouble. I’ve never dared enough.

There is a challenge of doing something new. Sometimes you have to suspend whether you believe in yourself doing it and just give yourself over to the idea that they believe in you.

You don't know what you're doing. You're just hoping that people won't make fun of you. I had no idea how it would turn out.

I don't even trust myself in my career much less giving somebody else advice.

Let me give you some advice: Try to approach things without preconceived ideas, without supposing you already know everything there is to know about them. Get that trick down and you'll be surprised at what's really all around you.

Insecurity refers to a profoud sense of self-doubt-a deep feeling of uncertainty about our basic worth and our place in the world. Insecurity is associated with chronic self-consciousness, along with a chronic lack of confidence in ourselves and anxiety about our relationships. The insecure man or woman lives in constant fear of rejection and a deep uncertainty about whether his or her own feelings and desires are legitimate.

Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.

I remember my first meeting with Guillermo Del Toro - he couldn't have been warmer, but I always had a kind of immaturity about me dealing with people that were in charge. Not really knowing how to conduct myself. And I got on the floor and curled up into a ball under a desk, which is so weird - as I was doing it, I was like, "Oh, my god, you're a freak. Get up. What are you doing?" And I looked at him like, "I'm so sorry," and he's like, "No, it's natural. Why wouldn't you want to do that?" He's just the most giving person and made me feel not like a freak.

She felt as she often did in class when she was nearly sure she had the right answer, but could not always make herself raise her hand.

I have often heard, that it is safer to hear and to take counsel, than to give it.

I want to undo this. To make it right. But I have no idea how. I don't seem to know how to open up to people without getting the door slammed in my face. So I do nothing.

I'm starting to mistrust my judgment.

I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.

Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom discover, till too late, how I ought to act.