Phil McGraw Quotes

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.

Phil McGraw

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• I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Done

• Where Negroes provide 20 percent of the vote, they should have 20 per cent of the jobs.

  

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  • Vote
  • Where
  • Percent

• People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Success
  • Appreciate

• Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Want
  • Know
  • Passion

• Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

  

  Babasaheb
  • People
  • Life
  • Society

• He does all research now, but he put me on some medication, Zoloft, and, I tell you what, a lot of people have had pros and cons about it, but it was my wonder drug.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • People
  • Me
  • Wonder

• They can say I have an opinion about something.

  

  Dan Abrams
  • Opinion
  • Something
  • Say

• The first thousand days of a baby's life are likely to determine the rest of her life - whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Life
  • Up
  • She

• For the last three years, I've been working on 'Bromst,' and that's all that encompassed my brain. And now that it's out, it will change the way that I think musically.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Think
  • Change
  • Brain

• When you have girl children they torture you!

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Children
  • Girl
  • You

• Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • Art
  • Poetry

• Sometimes I draw blanks.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Sometimes
  • Draw
  • Blanks

• I like Los Angeles. So many artistic people, and I just love the weather.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • People
  • Like
  • Weather

• The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will embrace you.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • World
  • Free
  • Simple

• Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Die
  • Secret
  • Recipe

• If I don't direct a movie at some point, I've failed personally.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Movie
  • Point
  • Direct

• While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Mother
  • Silent
  • Affairs

• Storytellers have the right to answer any question they choose.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Question
  • Right
  • Choose

• Kennedy after all has lots of glamour - Gregory Peck with an atom bomb in his holster.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Atoms
  • Bombs
  • Glamour

• With 'Pariah,' at the time, I had just come out. I had a coming out experience, and I was writing about it, transposing my experience as an adult: What would it have been like if I had been a teenager in Brooklyn? The funny thing was people thought I was from Brooklyn. I had to be like, 'No, I'm from Nashville.'

  

  Dee Rees
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• I love it when people come from all over the place in separate vehicles, and they all come to this venue and become one energy. When that happens, it's a very magical thing. I think that helps the world go around, and it's what we do as performers - bring people together.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • People
  • World
  • Together

• I sat around in a hotel room in London for about a month, locked myself away, formed a little diary and experimented with voices - it was important to try to find a somewhat iconic voice and laugh. I ended up landing more in the realm of a psychopath - someone with very little to no conscience towards his acts.

  

  Heath Ledger
  • Laugh
  • Conscience
  • Acts

• If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.

  

  Phil McGraw