To change any aspect of our life we must be willing to change our mind… Unfortunately, that is the one thing most people are the least willing to do.
BILL CRAWFORDTo influence others, we must know what is influencing them… and they must know that we get it.
More Bill Crawford Quotes
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Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better than you, is a future you.
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Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
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There are only three things we ‘have to’ do in this world we have to be born, we have to die, and we have to live until we die. Everything else is a choice!
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When faced with conflicting thoughts and emotions, we must decide what to trust, what we fear, or what we know. What’s important is that this decision be made by the knowledgeable versus the anxious part of who we are.
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How do you keep people from jerking your chain? Don’t give your chain to jerks!
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Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst … which often, never comes.
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True ‘magic’ is simply the ability to transcend what seems to be and, thus, transform one’s experience. Maybe we could all use a little ‘Harry Potter’ in our lives.
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Nothing is meaningless it’s how we assign meaning to the past that determines how we experience the present, and future.
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The problem with righteous indignation is that even when you’re right, you’re still left feeling indignant.
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Change isn’t always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.
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There are two ways to make someone important in our lives … we can either love them or hate them.
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The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
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Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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We can’t always choose how we feel. We can, however, choose what we do about it, which ironically can change how we feel!
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