Bill Crawford Quotes

Many of us go from being taken care of as children to taking care of others as adults. Shouldn’t there be a time when we learn to take care of ourselves?
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Adults Children Taken
The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
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Brain Children Creative
Diversity, or the state of being different, isn’t the same as inclusion. One is a description of what is, while the other describes a style of interaction essential to effective teams and organizations.
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Diversity Organization Team
Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the ‘other’ as both dangerous and important!
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Important Resentment Revenge
To spank or not to spank isn’t the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults?
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Kids Quality Teaching
Change isn’t about what you are stopping… it’s about what you are starting.
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Change Starting Stopping
Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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Affected Define Term
A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with meaning would seem to be a skill worth practicing.
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Meaningful Skills Want
The key to being with family is to engage with those we love in a way we would teach to those we love.
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Keys Teach Way
What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.
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Lives Material Mind
One key to creating a meaningful life, is choosing what we want to feel, and for how long.
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Creating Keys Meaningful
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.
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Coal Fire Hot
The past exists not as a factual recounting of what happened, but as an experience that we are constantly recreating in our mind which means we CAN change the past!
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Constantly Mean Mind Past
Children don’t know that they are lovable until they are loved. They need to see it in our eyes before they can accept it in their hearts.
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Children Eye Heart
One key to successful relationships is learning to say “no” without guilt, so that you can say “yes” without resentment.
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Guilt Keys Successful
Just because we have a thought, doesn’t mean it is a thought worth having.
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Having Mean Though Worth
Sometimes our ability to accept what we can’t change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.
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Accepting Change Sometimes Willingness
There are two ways to look at most problems… ‘Oh Crap!’ or, ‘Good Information!,’ and our choice will give us good information on how to deal with problems in the future.
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Choices Giving Two
Mistakes are just ‘mis-takes,’ or an action that we took that missed.
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Actions MIssed Mistakes
The true measure of our belief in the validity of our values is our willingness to act upon them.
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Belief Validity Willingness
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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Art Better Future Persons Reflection
The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will determine their impact on our lives.
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Energy Giving Impact
When people feel criticized, they almost always defend the behavior you want them to change.
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Behavior People Want
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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Choose Feels Ironically
When dealing with problems, seek not to “change” some aspect of your life but instead, choose who you want to become as a path to what you want. Transformation and healing then take place as a process of becoming versus avoiding.
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Healing Path Want
Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.
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Issue Knowing Matters Sometimes
To influence others, we must know what is influencing them… and they must know that we get it.
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Influence Knows Others People

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