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The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

1977 | Les Brown: “The Universe Responds to The Man or Woman that Refuses to Be Denied.”

The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

Sean Croxton

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Business, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Education

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, Les Brown shows us what commitment looks like.

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Yo today's Q-O-D is the universe responds to the man or woman that refuses to be

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denied. Here we go. Go. So, Welcome back to the quarter of the day show. I'm your host Sean Croixen and Sean Croixen

0:39.6

dot com. We got Les Brown on the show to light up your week.

0:44.0

Today, Les is going to talk about commitment,

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and he's going to paint a picture essentially

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for what commitment really looks like.

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Les Brown's coming up.

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What is commitment?

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Commitment is the salesman who says,

1:00.0

look here, I'm going to make a thousand dollars today

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and I'm not going home you

1:03.4

can turn the lights out the janitors could be here running the vacuum cleaner I'm

1:07.1

not leaving here till I do it I used to be a door-to-door salesman I I had X number of TVs. I had a minimum amount that I knew I had to sell every day in order to provide for my mother who was ill at the time who had lost her job at the M the Eminem cafeteria because of arthritis.

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And I said, I'm going to go door to door,

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and sometimes I would not come home until one o'clock at night,

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knocking on people's door, people closing.

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What do you want?

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Would you like to buy a nice working month's television set, no money down?

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No, what about an Emerson TV?

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No!

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Thank you very much.

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Do you know anybody else that would be interested? No! Thank you very kindly.

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