Phil McGraw Quotes - Page 5

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.

Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.

Effective negotiators have a style that those whom they are trying to influence, relate to and admire.

If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.

Common sense needs to be more common.

I think you're running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, 'Brace yourself honey, here I come!'

A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.

Oh, everybody wears a mask. We all put our best foot forward. We all try and make a statement, I'm not saying that's bad.

I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president.

If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I'd been gone in two weeks.

I've learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.

Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we're doing. We believe things about ourselves.

There's a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There's a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.

Don't wait until you're in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.

There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage.

Life Is Managed; It Is Not Cured.

There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he's held up by the others until he regains his footing.

Well, I'm not sure what pop psychology is, but I don't like it.

I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt.

I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.

If you're trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.

If you marry for money you will earn every penny.

I just am not good at math.

I've talked to so many people, men and women alike, that get overweight and their self-esteem just goes in the tank. They think they're judged. They think they're unattractive.