Dr Phil McGraw

People create their own experiences.

Like an enemy I knew as intimately as any friend, I came to know the nagging, constant emptiness of the incongruent life. I ignored myself and lived for people, purposes, and goals that weren’t my own. I betrayed who I was and instead accepted a fictional substitute that was defined from the outside in.

Effective negotiators have a style that those whom they are trying to influence, relate to and admire.

Champions get what they want because they know what they want. They have a vision that keeps them motivated and efficiently on track. They see it, feel it, and experience it in their minds and hearts. What is success for you? You won’t get there without knowing what it feels and looks like.

You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into action, they are of no value.

People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.

Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

If there’s only one answer, then this must not be a very interesting topic.

In the 80s, when I was a little girl, this whole Midtown area was a different world. These are the streets that I walked, and learned my lessons on, and heard the music, and witnessed disenfranchised people, and people who just had dreams and hopes. Every pimp, every prostitute, every drug dealer, every Broadway dreamer wishing they could be a writer, or a musician, or an actor.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

It is the mind that makes good or ill. That which makes us happy or sad; rich or poor.

Creativity is a renewable resource. Be as creative as you like, as often as you like, because you can never run out!

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

We are always seeking for those things which are in the clouds, not for those that lie at our feet.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

You know you’re getting old when you stop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there.

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.

The less you know, the more you believe.