Peter McWilliams quote: "The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news."

We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughin...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Two halves have little choice but to join;
And yes, they do make a whole
but two wholes when t...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

As much as we like to think that we are independent-minded, free-willed, autonomous individuals, the...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

First, all relationships are with yourself-and sometimes they involve other people. Second, the most...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to asp...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

The laws against public nudity make no sense. The idea that Jerry Falwell can go topless while Cindy...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

All the things you think you should have done that you didn't do, and all of the things that you sho...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Your Master Teacher knows all you need to learn, the perfect timing for your learning it, and the id...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Come to the edge,' he said. They said, 'We are afraid.' 'Come to the edge,' he said. They came. H...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and ...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love....
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do th...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Nothing adventured, nothing attained.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves -- at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed a...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Mistakes show us what we need to learn.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Our thoughts create our reality -- where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

The simple solution for disappointment depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. ...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involv...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will pow...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Resentment is anger directed at others--at what they did or did not do.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life ca...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had t...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happie...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth."
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, righ...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Emotion is energy in motion.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

And neither shall we learn to war with ourselves anymore.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

In order to truly master the comfort zone, you have to learn to love it.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

People who want to appear clever rely on memory. People who want to get things done make lists.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

If we learned everything there is to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in firs...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regula...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland, we drag the past into the futu...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

You can change anything you want. You just can't change everything you want.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

When it comes time to teach, teach from your experience. Go out and do, learn from the doing, then t...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Willingness opens the doors to knowledge, direction, and achievement. Be willing to know, be willing...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

First, all relationships are with yourself-and sometimes they involve other people. Second, the most...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

You can have anything you want in life, you just can't have everything you want.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what we think will make us happy.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

The amount of power freed by telling yourself you no longer choose to put energy into something can ...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

For writing, getting off our buts means getting on our butts-putting it into a chair and not moving ...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

We can do anything we want. The next time you hear yourself saying, to another-and especially yourse...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

To the degree we can live without the things of this world, to that degree we are wealthy.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do th...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you master the old rule, you are then the...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Find your horse. Discover the direction the horse is going. Ride the horse in that direction.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a sma...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, o...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Heroes became heroes flaws and all. You don't have to be perfect to fulfill your dream.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

We are not responsible for every thought that goes wandering through our mind. We are, however, resp...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Keep your goals away from the trolls.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

When we realize one Dream, sometimes a deeper Dream reveals itself. At other times a parallel Dream ...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Your Master Teacher knows all you need to learn, the perfect timing for your learning it, and the id...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Life is not a struggle. It's a wiggle.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the Universi...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

This is how it happens. We get the Dream, but we don't get to dictate every step toward the dream.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Let your intentions create your methods and not the other way around.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

The reason we feel hurt and anger when things and people outside us let us down is because we believ...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Feeling right is a strong drug. Some people sacrifice a lot to be right. Ever hear the expression "d...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson ...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a sma...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

To visualize is to see what is not there, what is not real -- a dream . To visualize is, in fact, to...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suf...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Some people think that meditation takes time away from physicalaccomplishment. Taken to extremes, of...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Negative thinking is always expensive -- dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically -- h...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

We are all, right now, living the life we choose.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Your Master Teacher knows all you need to learn, the perfect timing for your learning it, and the id...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science, and our leaders have lied about thi...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

To affirm is to make firm.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

I'm a confirmed negaholic. I don't just see a glass that's half full and call it half-empty; I see a...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Positive thoughts have positive results. Negative thoughts produce negative results.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

All the good, fine, noble, and creative acts of humanity were conceived as a spark in a single human...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success m...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

You are far more powerful than you ever dreamed.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered. Our purpose is something we have been doing all alo...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Anger begins as an inner twinge. We sense something long before it blossoms (explodes?) into an emot...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

This is our true wealth -- the riches we take with us, the joy we carry inside, the support we learn...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Learn to ask for what you want... The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for-which is ...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

As the world gets dumber and dumber, I feel more and more at home.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

When it comes to teach, teach from your experience. Go out and do, learn from the doing, then teach ...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Everyone thinks they can be a writer. Most people don't understand what's involved. The real writers...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Send the light of your own loving ahead of you. When you get there, the loving will have prepared a ...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

Life is not a struggle. It's a wiggle.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

It is a risk to love.
What if it doesn't work out?
Ah, but what if it does.
PETER MCWILLIAMS

When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland, we drag the past into the futu...
PETER MCWILLIAMS

We're back to the old standby ? we're the most affordable area in the county.
JOHN MCWILLIAMS

We are very excited by this research and we believe that this therapeutic T cell vaccination approac...
DAVID MCWILLIAMS

This additional capital is a tremendous catalyst for the company and will provide us with the financ...
DAVID MCWILLIAMS

When there were unlimited scholarships, we were able to pick and choose and take more of the elite g...
DAVID MCWILLIAMS

In London (the worst) probably is over. The London economy, in our estimates, declined at end of las...
DOUGLAS MCWILLIAMS

Last year was the bounce-back year and this year is the consolidation year.
DOUGLAS MCWILLIAMS

The stock markets have been doing reasonably well and there's been a big hike in merger activity ove...
DOUGLAS MCWILLIAMS

Business is tough, now people are trying to travel but at much lower cost. (In total) business trave...
DOUGLAS MCWILLIAMS

Executives might not want to make cuts in travel budgets, but businesses are insisting on it.
DOUGLAS MCWILLIAMS

Those in the metals markets will have noticed the push into metals and I think we'll see more of tha...
DOUGLAS MCWILLIAMS

...no matter how rhapsodic one waxes about the process of wresting edible plants and tamed animals f...
JAMES MCWILLIAMS

We seemed to vacillate all season between hot and cold weather, but we warmed up for a nice long fal...
DENISE MCWILLIAMS

I think we'll see more and more people going toward crops that use water more efficiently and crops ...
DENISE MCWILLIAMS

If that's the case, the earlier we can do it after diagnosis the better.
DAVID MCWILLIAMS

This one is much worse than 1995 and there is more of this to go.
DAVID MCWILLIAMS

I didn't think I was meeting the expectations of what my university should be. I thought it was time...
DAVID MCWILLIAMS

We've still got a game to go and this team has a lot of character and we're going to bounce back and...
NICK MCWILLIAMS

When I give the best of me, that becomes my legacy.
KAREN LOPEZ MCWILLIAMS

Shouting at people keeps you alive, healthy, young, fresh.
PETER CAPALDI

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
PETER MARSHALL

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
PETER DRUCKER

The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearin...
PETER DAVISON

If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a rive...
PETER BENCHLEY

There are wars being fought! Who cares what I'm doing on a Saturday night? I'm not even a ce...
PETER DINKLAGE

The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot o...
PETER BENENSON

My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their compa...
PETER ZUMTHOR

The celebration... you cannot practice it or anything. It's a moment when the excitement of your...
PETER BONDRA

When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I join...
PETER COYOTE

To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
IRENE PETER

Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it.
IRENE PETER

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
IRENE PETER

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
IRENE PETER

Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
IRENE PETER

Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.
IRENE PETER

There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The w...
PETER CAPALDI

The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
PETER MARSHALL

Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.
PETER BENCHLEY

The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to k...
PETER LINDBERGH

New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.
PETER JACKSON

The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.
PETER SINGER

Almost any shark, three or four feet long, could kill a human being if it chose to do it. It could m...
PETER BENCHLEY

Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming indi...
PETER DRUCKER

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
PETER DRUCKER

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
PETER DRUCKER

I spent two years at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, and then some New York types saw me there a...
PETER MACNICOL

Between November 23, 2002, and January 11, 2003, al-Qahtani was interrogated for 48 days at Guantana...
PETER BERGEN

I think about the Internet and cell phones and jets and spaceships, and I wonder, 'What's go...
PETER DIAMANDIS

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't...
PETER DRUCKER

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
PETER DRUCKER

Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.
PETER DRUCKER

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
PETER DRUCKER

I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.
PETER TOSH

There are no training courses to make people bishops. You have to learn on the job.
PETER HOLLINGWORTH

Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's t...
PETER SHAFFER

A man can submit today in order to resist tomorrow. My submission had been such. And because I had n...
PETER ABRAHAMS

I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.
PETER STEELE

Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity.
PETER ORSZAG

I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organizati...
PETER SHAFFER

Each year, billions of animals are subjected to cruelty on factory farms, feed lots, and slaughterho...
PETER DINKLAGE

You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks th...
PETER SHUMLIN

I love criticism. Equitable Life went down because management wouldn't brook criticism, but if y...
PETER HARGREAVES

Even though Mr. Trump is a billionaire, he is still able to relate to average working men and women....
PETER NAVARRO

By the 1980s, practically no one under 60 in the real civilian world wore hats for anything except w...
PETER YORK

It’s not just tougher out there. It’s become a situation where the contest is how much you can d...
PETER HART

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand forbecause unless we stand...
PETER MARSHALL

In recent years, breweries and brew pubs have flourished across the Nation. And, as the Representati...
PETER DEFAZIO

My inbox and doormat are full with emails and letters from people who want me to endorse their Higgs...
PETER HIGGS

The cameo I did in 'Fellowship of the Ring' was I was in the street of Bree, and I was eatin...
PETER JACKSON

I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts ...
PETER ACKROYD

I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.' I tap-danc...
PETER DINKLAGE

The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new bu...
PETER CHERNIN

Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've b...
PETER HOOK

When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newma...
PETER FACINELLI

Pirates are the very essence of profit maximising entrepreneurs described in neoclassical economics....
PETER MIDDLEBROOK

Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all...
PETER JACKSON

When I founded the first Hard Rock, no one was serving American food in London; McDonald's wasn&...
PETER MORTON

Let me say right off the bat that I'm not what you would call a 'tree hugger' or a '...
PETER NAVARRO

Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of...
PETER DIAMANDIS

It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep...
PETER SHAFFER

A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I marr...
PETER CAPALDI

I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, ...
PETER BEARD

Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs - or, more menacingly, fir...
PETER SINGER

As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could ...
PETER WRIGHT

There's a part of bohemia I love. The lack of prejudice, the lack of aggression, I love the lack...
PETER MULLAN

Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts....
PETER DINKLAGE

It's a younger generation running the show, and I miss the generation we had in the '70s. Th...
PETER CRISS

Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through t...
PETER GUBER

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of...
PETER COOPER

Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own ...
PETER ABRAHAMS

Always have a sense of humor about life - you'll need it - but always be courteous to boot.
PETER JENNINGS

The best way to lift people out of poverty and boost wages is to grow our GDP faster. While Trump is...
PETER NAVARRO

To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone...
PETER GAY

The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.

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The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.

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