Bradley Charbonneau > Bradley's Quotes

“There was something magical about an island—the mere word suggested fantasy. You lost touch with the world—an island was a world of its own. A world, perhaps, from which you might never return. He thought: “I’m leaving my ordinary life behind me.” And, smiling to himself, he began to make plans, fantastic plans for the future. He was still smiling when he walked up the rock-cut steps. In”
― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None

“At its core, the pill represents a decision: a decision to change a behavior.”
― Bradley Charbonneau, Every Single Day: A Simple Prescription for Transformation

“Failure will no longer bother you. Let that sink in. It’s a big deal.”
― Bradley Charbonneau, Every Single Day: A Simple Prescription for Transformation

“If you knew who walked beside you at all times, on the path that you have chosen, you could never experience fear or doubt again.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

“Psychologists have discovered that negative self-statement is one of the main drivers of anxiety and depression.”
― Bukky Ekine-Ogunlana, 101 Tips for Child Development: Proven Methods for Raising Children and Improving Kids Behavior with Whole Brain Training

“Teach your son/daughter not to take themselves too seriously by laughing with them, and encouraging them to laugh at themselves.”
― Bukky Ekine-Ogunlana, 101 Tips for Child Development: Proven Methods for Raising Children and Improving Kids Behavior with Whole Brain Training

“In fact, fear can be a strength, but only if you are willing to admit to your fears and put in the work to overcome them.”
― Noah Marcello, UNAFRAID: From Fearless Public Speaking to Making Confident Impressions on Anyone

“Increased perspiration: sadly, perspiration brought on by anxiety often has a stronger odor than ordinary perspiration from exercise or heat.”
― Noah Marcello, UNAFRAID: From Fearless Public Speaking to Making Confident Impressions on Anyone

“People are often just afraid of change or new things in general and behind this fear is usually a fear of failure.”
― Noah Marcello, UNAFRAID: From Fearless Public Speaking to Making Confident Impressions on Anyone

“Myra said, “Right, right. We had the best idea ever for a semi-serious novel, but we were not about to give it to our jackass publisher. We had to get out of his lousy contract so we could snag a better house, one that would appreciate the genius behind our great idea. That part of it worked. Two years later, the three awful books were still selling like crazy while the great novel flopped. Go figure.”
― John Grisham, Camino Island

“First and most important is to decide whether you want to write literary fiction, stuff you can’t give away, hell, Bruce can’t even sell it, or do you want to write something more popular.”
― John Grisham, Camino Island

“When you do something, you should do it with your whole body and mind; you should be concentrated on what you do. You should do it completely, like a good bonfire. You should not be a smoky fire. You should burn yourself completely. If you do not burn yourself completely, a trace of yourself will be left in what you do.”
― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

“If your energy frequency is high, fast, and clear, life unfolds effortlessly and in alignment with your destiny, while a lower, slower, more distorted frequency begets a life of snags and disappointments.”
― Penney Peirce, Frequency: The Power of Personal Vibration

“We’re discovering that these concepts are at the heart of the newest techniques for knowing, doing, and having everything. In other words, your personal vibration—the frequency of energy you hold moment by moment in your body, emotions, and mind—is the most important tool you have for creating and living your ideal life.”
― Penney Peirce, Frequency: The Power of Personal Vibration

“Finally, include a full page in the back matter of your book about your speaking. You can title that page: “Book [Insert Your Name] to Speak” with a photo of you on stage and the title of your most popular keynote(s) and direct contact information to your booking agent or assistant.”
― Honoree Corder, You Must Monetize Your Book: Create Multiple Streams of Income, Diversify Your Earnings, and Multiply Your Impact

“If you want the thing, if your passion for the thing is greater than your dislike (or annoyance or boredom or whatever)”
― Bradley Charbonneau, 17 Hours to More Clarity, Courage, and Confidence: A Repeatable Roadmap of Intermittent Fasting, Meditating, and Creating

“As the journalist, Neil Strauss, wrote, “Success comes down to doing the obvious thing for an uncommonly long period of time without convincing yourself you’re smarter than you are.”
― Thibaut Meurisse, Focus on The Process: The Simple “Secret” to Achieving Your Goals

“Tiny actions performed consistently for a long period of time can generate enormous momentum and lead to extraordinary results.”
― Thibaut Meurisse, Focus on The Process: The Simple “Secret” to Achieving Your Goals

“Sincere spiritual investigation is, and always has been, an endeavor of methodical discipline.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Still, despite all this, traveling is the great true love of my life. I have always felt, ever since I was sixteen years old and first went to Russia with my saved-up babysitting money, that to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“I feel about travel the way a happy new mother feels about her impossible, colicky, restless newborn baby—I just don’t care what it puts me through. Because I adore it. Because it’s mine. Because it looks exactly like me. It can barf all over me if it wants to—I just don’t care.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“This is why I’m not afraid to travel to the most remote places in the world, not if there are human beings there to meet. People asked me before I left for Italy, “Do you have friends in Rome?” and I would just shake my head no, thinking to myself, But I will.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“I’m so excited about school. I’m such a shameless student. I laid my clothes out last night, just like I did before my first day of first grade, with my patent leather shoes and my new lunch box. I hope the teacher will like me.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“There are twelve of us studying together, of all ages, from all over the world, and everybody has come to Rome for the same reason—to study Italian just because they feel like it. Not one of us can identify a single practical reason for being here.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“don’t know the answer, and I suppose that’s what this year of journeying is about. Finding my word.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“This is the son of one of the local shopkeepers. His family is very poor. The Guru invited him to stay here. When he plays the drums, you can hear God’s voice.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“The truth is, I don’t think I’m good at meditation. I know I’m out of practice with it, but honestly I was never good at it. I can’t seem to get my mind to hold still. I mentioned this once to an Indian monk, and he said, “It’s a pity you’re the only person in the history of the world who ever had this problem.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don’t have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“You know what your problem is? You haven’t figured out how to like the life you’ve got.”
― Elizabeth George, Two of the Deadliest: Gripping Crime Anthology – Short Stories of Psychological Suspense from Elizabeth George and Outstanding Women Writers