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Phil McGraw Quotes

Total quotes: 13
“If emotional pain or problems have cropped up in your life, you must insist on getting closure. Closure means you don’t carry the problem or the pain. You address the issue, then you slam shut the book and put it away.”
— Phil McGraw, The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys
Tagged: emotional pain, Closure
“if you continue to do what you’ve always done, you will continue to have what you’ve always had.”
— Phil McGraw, The 20/20 Diet
Tagged: Habit
“In the meantime, let’s agree that what makes a problem big is simply that it’s yours.”
— Phil McGraw, Life Strategies: The No-Nonsense Approach to Turning Your Life Around
Tagged: Problems
“When you allow a person's words to upset you, you're giving away your power.”
— Phil McGraw, Dr. Phil Getting Real
Tagged: Words, Power
“I love life, but not everything in it. I love people, but not all of them. I love myself, but not everything about me.”
— Phil McGraw, Life Code: The New Rules
Tagged: Life, Love, Selectivity
“You can't change other people or (some) conditions; you can change only your reactions to them.”
— Phil McGraw, The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys
Tagged: Change, changing others, Reactive Behavior
“It is just good practice to do a situational scan and have situational awareness when you are out in the world.”
— Phil McGraw, Life Code: The New Rules
Tagged: Situational Awareness
“You must learn that you do not have to be angry just because you have the right to be.”
— Phil McGraw, Life Strategies: The No-Nonsense Approach to Turning Your Life Around
Tagged: Anger
“I ask you to go back and read them over again, and this time answer them keeping in mind that you are writing your children’s future with your answers.”
— Phil McGraw, Family First: Your Step-by-Step Plan for Creating a Phenomenal Family
“There are people I want to talk to before they die. I wanna talk to O.J. [Simpson] before he dies. I wanna know. I’ve worked very closely with the Goldman family. I respect them so much. I respect them so greatly. I wanna talk to him because he can’t lie to me.”
— Phil McGraw, Dr. Phil Shares Why O.J. Simpson Is His Dream Podcast Guest
Tagged: O. J. Simpson, Goldman Family
“Life experiences, mental illness, drugs, greed, environment, and poor role-modeling can all forge damaged people and can generate a darkness, an exploitiveness, in the way they approach life. Whatever their genesis, there are people in your life (and mine) who will hurt you if you let them.”
— Phil McGraw, Life Code: The New Rules
Tagged: Life experiences, Mental Illness, Greed, environment, Darkness
“We teach people how to treat us.”
— Phil McGraw, Life Law #8: We Teach People How to Treat Us | Dr. Phil
Tagged: Treatment
“You stop and think about it, we are in the biggest information explosion I think in the history of the world.  It's just in this generation that when you and I were growing up, there wasn't even a word for Internet or World Wide Web, for example.  We had three TV channels.  We were watching either Lucy or ‘Gunsmoke’ or Ricky Nelson.  And now there's 500 TV channels.  The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home.  There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.”
— Phil McGraw, Transcript for Dec. 26
Tagged: information, Internet, World Wide Web, Gunsmoke, Ricky Nelson
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