"The real problem when working with a consultant, a therapist or a coach isn’t that we don’t know what to do. The real problem is that we don’t want to change our mind."
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"Wouldn't it be great to be gifted? In fact It turns out that choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You're not born this way, you get this way."
"Don't worry about your stuff. Worry about making meaning instead."
"While someone can attempt to shame you, shame must also be accepted to be effective. We can't make you feel shame without your participation."
"Rather than simply interrupting a television show with a commercial or barging into the consumer’s life with an unannounced phone call or letter, tomorrow’s marketer will first try to gain the consumer’s consent to participate in the selling process."
"Powerful advertising is anticipated, personal, and relevant."
"There's a huge difference between the shallow pleasure of instant applause and the long-lasting impact of true connection."
"An artists is someone who does something for the first time, something human, something that touches another."
"True creativity comes from enjoying ?the? moments, which then fulfill themselves, and a part of the creative process is indeed the art of relaxation, the letting go, for that triggers magical activity."
"The search for the right answer is the enemy of art."
"We've been trained to prefer being right to learning something, to prefer passing the test to making a difference, and most of all to prefer fitting in with the right people"
"Either you’re going to tell stories that spread, or you will become irrelevant."
"Don’t try to change someone’s worldview is the strategy smart marketers follow. Don’t try to use facts to prove your case and to insist that people change their biases. You don’t have enough time and you don’t have enough money. Instead, identify a population with a certain worldview, frame your story in terms of that worldview and you win."
"On the other hand technology brings within your reach the great therapy of music; this activates the inner living cells of your body, stimulates the energy of the inner self and helps to unite the conscious mind with the other portions of your being."
"The best way to honor someone who has said something smart and useful is to say something back that is smart and useful. The other way to honor them is to go do something with what you learned."
"When your ideas about yourself change, so does your experience."