Dr Phil McGraw

Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.

The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior, so you have got to create a new history.

I mean, I’m very, very competitive.

Awareness without action is worthless.

Eighty percent of all questions are statements in disguise.

I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That’s a horrible existence for people.

We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.

Wealth is the product of a man’s ability to think.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

I don’t have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.

I don’t know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

My view is, first you get them to laugh, then you get them to listen. So I’m always game for a good joke, and I’m not so formal in this role. There’s very little that we can’t do that people wouldn’t appreciate.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.

When you get emotional, slow your thoughts down, and listen attentively (write it down). That way, you’ll be able to hear what you are thinking. You do this becoming very still and very quiet, and recording your thoughts. These high-speed thoughts and internal reactions always precede your feelings and emotions. Trust me, you did tell yourself something if you now feel anger, mad, anxious, frustrated, sad or depressed. From now on, whenever you get upset, listen ever so carefully, to what you are telling yourself.

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, simply drop it.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before–more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

I drank to drown my pain, but the damned pain learned how to swim…

2 is not equal to 3, not even for large values of 2.

We live in an era of tremendous facts. And the facts are facts. They are also unpleasant facts, which does not decrease their factual percentage one bit. Our job is to understand them, to recognize their presence, to learn if we can what they signify and not to fall into the error of minimizing facts because they have a bitter flavor.

Dream is not the thing what you see in sleep, dream is the thing that does not let you sleep.