Phil McGraw Quotes

The people change, the common denominator is you.

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• Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Good
  • Work
  • Three

• Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straight to the darkroom and develop it. But once that's done, I'm fine.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Good
  • Done
  • Me

• I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • God
  • Believe
  • End

• The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Mean
  • Achievement
  • Canada

• Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Stories
  • Fight
  • Intelligence

• I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Color
  • Bold
  • Pink

• Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Children
  • You
  • Talk

• Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Nature
  • Focus
  • Environment

• I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Teacher
  • Yoga
  • Swim

• Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.

  Ford Frick
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Respect

• The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

  

  Ovid
  • Others
  • Crop
  • Heavier

• I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And people don't expect it from me, which is a whammy.

  

  Bar Paly
  • People
  • Strong
  • Me

• Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Good
  • You
  • Realize

• New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Moving

• Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Sometimes
  • Will
  • Make

• When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Different
  • American
  • America

• I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Character
  • Dark
  • Blue

• They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Me
  • Lost
  • Paris

• As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Success
  • Friend
  • Mountain

• It's not like I'm dying to do work that's taken seriously, and I'm not looking to become a thespian. It's not what I'm looking for; I'm just looking to do quality work.

  

  Jason Statham
  • Work
  • Taken
  • Quality

• Everyone knows, or should know, that everything we type on our computers or say into our cell phones is being disseminated throughout the datasphere. And most of it is recorded and parsed by big data servers. Why do you think Gmail and Facebook are free? You think they're corporate gifts? We pay with our data.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Why
  • Free

• I lick the cheese off Doritos and put them back in the bag. I will eat pretty much anything as long as it's salty. Or sweet. Or spicy.

  

  Chrissy Teigen
  • Long
  • Pretty
  • Sweet

• As technology improves, on-screen avatars look more and more like real people. When they start looking too real, though, we pull away. These almost-humans aren't quite right; they look creepy, like zombies.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • People
  • Real
  • Technology

• The people change, the common denominator is you.

  

  Phil McGraw
  • People