Phil McGraw Quotes

It's so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.

Phil McGraw

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PeopleWantNeedTellEasierHear

I'm a father with two daughters, and I don't want them to feel that they have to go and work in China when they are older.

Joe Kaeser

WorkFatherFeelGoWantChina

There's smarter people than me. But you cannot have any one guy running 18 billion-dollar businesses. It just doesn't make sense to me. I've met some extraordinary leaders in my time. They struggle with running one billion-dollar business.

Robert Scoble

BusinessTimeStrugglePeopleMe

The new disease was named chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and the NFL fervently and repeatedly denied that such a thing had anything to do with the league or its players.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

NewAnythingNFLPlayersDisease

I don't like to be the only person talking in a room.

Travis Fimmel

TalkingPersonRoomOnlyLike

When people repeatedly hit me, I would feel a sense of unfairness.

Ronaldo

PeopleMeFeelSenseWouldHit

I'm either proud or embarrassed to say that I never took a journalism class in my life.

Jonathan Miles

LifeProudMy LifeJournalismSay

The problem with taking venture capital is if you take $5m from someone, it may feel great; you may feel like they're validating your business model. But they're giving $5m out to 20 different people, hoping one of them will be a hit. They don't really care if it's you.

Jon Oringer

BusinessGreatPeopleCareProblem

What calmed me down finally was when my girlfriend got pregnant.

Johnny Knoxville

MeDownGirlfriendGotFinally

'Rob Roy' was a great adaptation. It was a lot better than 'Braveheart.'

Diana Gabaldon

GreatBetterThanLotAdaptation

So many of us don't know what we want; we just know we don't want what we have. We spend 99% of the time talking about how bad it is, but only 1% of the time talking about how we can do something about it.

DeRay Mckesson

TimeTalkingBadKnowWantUs

My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others.

Brigitte Bardot

FreeOthersWildSideSome

I joined a writing class at a nearby community center, where I was the youngest participant by about 40 years. Once a week, I'd funnel down a staircase and join the dozen retirees crowded in folding chairs around a table to discuss one another's stories.

Anthony Marra

CommunityWritingStaircaseWeek

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