Bill Crawford Quotes

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• Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst ... which often, never comes.
• There are two ways to make someone important in our lives ... we can either love them or hate them.
• All of life presents itself as a cycle of cause and effect. When this cycle is negative, there are three ways to change. You can…
• One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.
• The way to encourage people to be accountable is to engage the responsible, accountable, trustworthy part of their brain.
• Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.
• You can't use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.
• We can't always choose how we feel. We can, however, choose what we do about it, which ironically can change how we feel!
• When 'Being Rushed' is the problem . . . Rushing is never the solution.
• The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.
• You can't 'cope with' change anymore than you can 'manage' stress.
• Our success and happiness depends not on simply knowing where we stand, but in where we are wanting to go.
• As we interact with others, we can either be a person who is bringing out their best or pointing out their worst. Regardless, however, our…
• The cooperative, creative, and flexible parts of your children reside in the joyful part of their brain.
• 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…
• Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that…
• Never make your highest purpose, or the most important thing in your life something that is outside of your control.
• Courage isn't the absence of fear, but a decision that what we want is more important than what we are afraid of.
• Regardless of the problem, as long as our solution requires someone else to change, we will never know the power and promise of self-determination.
• You can't fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.

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