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Phil McGraw Quotes

Total quotes: 25
“What upsets people is not what happens in our lives.  What upsets people is if something happens different than we expect.”
— Phil McGraw, Transcript for Dec. 26
Tagged: Getting Upset
“I believe that every person has what I call a personal truth. That's what they believe about themselves when nobody's looking or nobody's listening.  We all have a social mask, right?  We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image.  But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.”
— Phil McGraw, Transcript for Dec. 26
Tagged: Personal Truth, social mask
“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
“We teach people how to treat us.”
— Phil McGraw, Life Law #8: We Teach People How to Treat Us | Dr. Phil
Tagged: Treatment
“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
“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
“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
“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
“First, you’re going to have to stop using food for anything other than nutrition. You cannot continue to use food to celebrate, or as a companion, or for entertainment, or comfort. You cannot medicate yourself, your mood, or pain with food.”
— Phil McGraw, The 20/20 Diet
Tagged: food, nutrition, Celebrate, Entertainment, Self-Medication
“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
“Forgiveness of those who have transgressed against you, or those you love, is not about them; it is about you. It is a gift to yourself.”
— Phil McGraw, The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys
Tagged: forgiveness, Love
“When you get emotional, slow your thoughts down, and listen attentively (write it down). That way, you'll be able to hear what you are thinking. You do this becoming very still and very quiet, and recording your thoughts. These high-speed thoughts and internal reactions always precede your feelings and emotions. Trust me, you did tell yourself something if you now feel anger, mad, anxious, frustrated, sad or depressed. From now on, whenever you get upset, listen ever so carefully, to what you are telling yourself.”
— Phil McGraw, The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys
Tagged: Emotional, Listening, emotions, Mad, Anxious, Frustrated
“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
“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
“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
“Power begins with having a crystal-clear view of reality and what each and every person in your life is driven by.”
— Phil McGraw, Life Code: The New Rules
Tagged: Power, Reality
“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
“Drama and crisis are currency to them because they love the power to make people react. They thrive on a good fight, a good scandal, a good drama.”
— Phil McGraw, Life Code: The New Rules
Tagged: Drama, Crisis, currency, scandal
“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
“The truth doesn't have versions, it just is.”
— Phil McGraw, Life Code: The New Rules
Tagged: Truth
“Take the high road, there's a lot less traffic up there.”
— Phil McGraw, Life Code: The New Rules
Tagged: High Road
“People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.”
— Phil McGraw, Dr. Phil Getting Real
Tagged: Free Speech, Reactive Behavior
“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
“Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.”
— Phil McGraw, A quote by Phillip C. McGraw
Tagged: Self-Love
“There’s a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There’s a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.”
— Phil McGraw, Phil McGraw
Tagged: Culture and Society, Psychology
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