Brian Tracy Quotes

The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.

Your environment influences your mindset.

There's nothing that you like in this world that wasn't influenced by a bunch of key things; nothing came completely clean out of a vacuum.

Your environment affects you wherever you are.

I believe your atmosphere and your surroundings create a mind state for you.

When I see a colour or hear a sound, I am aware of something, and not of nothing.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber.

The conscious mind is not at the center of the action in the brain; instead, it is far out on a distant edge, hearing but whispers of the activity.

I think I'm passionately allowing myself to be influenced by the things that are around me.

Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.

Anyone has outside influences. They are the results of the cosmic roll of the dice: this person is born Aragon the Ranger, this person is born a prisoner in North Korea, this person is born Carlos the Dwarf. Some of these things are out of our control, but that doesn't mean that they can't be changed. A character, just like a person in real life, is a summation of her actions and feelings. Our actions and emotions are not performed against nothing, they do not arise from dust, we are in constant friction, and/or flow with our surroundings.

A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.

More of your conversation would infect my brain.

Your eyes is camera and your brain is a file cabinet.

Ideas have far-reaching consequences, and one must be ever so careful about what one allows to lodge in one's brain.

To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything.

Awareness of your surroundings occurs only when sensory inputs violate expectations. When the world is successfully predicted away, awareness is not needed because the brain is doing its job well.

It may be said that the basic characteristic of human behavior in general is that humans personally influence their relations with the environment and through that environment personally change their behavior, subjugating it to their control.

Most of the brain's work is done while the brain's owner is ostensibly thinking about something else, so sometimes you have to deliberately find something else to think and talk about.

In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.

Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there

The brain is not a blind, reactive machine, but a complex, sensitive biocomputer that we can program. And if we don't take the responsibility for programming it, then it will be programmed unwittingly by accident or by the social environnement.

The phrase 'nature and nurture' is a convenient jingle of words, for it separates under two distinct heads the innumerable elements of which personality is composed. Nature is all that a man brings with himself into the world; nurture is every influence without that affects him after his birth.

The most intellectual of men are moved quite as much by the circumstances which they are used to as by their own will. The active voluntary part of a man is very small, and if it were not economized by a sleepy kind of habit, its results would be null.