Phil McGraw Quotes

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

Phil McGraw

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• I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Dark
  • Magic
  • Mood

• My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Passion

• Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introducing light-sensitive proteins into specific types of neurons, we can now selectively control that specific type of neuron by shining light in the brain.

  

  Feng Zhang
  • Light
  • Control
  • Brain

• Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Simple
  • Human
  • Difficult

• Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.

  

  Yuri Andropov
  • Industry
  • Modern
  • Slow

• I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Together
  • Day
  • End

• I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • School
  • Experience
  • War

• My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Music
  • Mother
  • Passionate

• When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Family
  • Hands
  • Capitalism

• My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Good
  • Why
  • Mom

• If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Yourself
  • Dying
  • Afraid

• Personal style? I don't really believe in that. Whatever is comfortable.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Believe
  • Style
  • Comfortable

• It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Death
  • Knowledge
  • Smoking

• There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Great
  • New
  • New York

• With the juice, I try to put a lot of different kinds of vegetables in there like zucchini, kale and broccoli. It looks scary, but it's so good for your body, and I just love the taste of it. It's so fresh; I love it!

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • Good
  • Body
  • Looks

• A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Movie
  • Humanity
  • Human

• I have been acting since I was thirteen.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Acting
  • Been
  • Thirteen

• I've been trying to pinpoint what keeps drawing me back to the Gulf of Mexico, because I'm Canadian, and I can draw no ancestral ties.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Drawing
  • Ties
  • Keeps

• I've seen so much. And I've heard so many great performers. There are performers now that couldn't work back in the days when I came along.

  

  Lena Horne
  • Work
  • Great
  • Days

• There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love by it, swim in it, play in it, look at it. It was a living thing that was as unpredictable as a great stage actor: it could be calm and welcoming, opening its arms to embrace it's audience one moment, but then could explode with its stormy tempers, flinging people around, wanting them out, attacking coastlines, breaking down islands.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • People
  • Ocean
  • Swim

• I pray for a more friendly, more caring, and more understanding human family on this planet. To all who dislike suffering, who cherish lasting happiness, this is my heartfelt appeal.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Family
  • Understanding
  • Suffering

• Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • You
  • Find
  • Author

• Dramatic and emotional trading experiences tend to be negative. Pride is a great banana peel, as are hope, fear, and greed. My biggest slip-ups occurred shortly after I got emotionally involved with positions.

  

  Ed Seykota
  • Emotional
  • Pride
  • Negative

• Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

  

  Phil McGraw
  • Challenge
  • Suffering