"My philosophy is to "kill the monster..." - Quote by Tony Robbins
My philosophy is to "kill the monster while it's little." The best time to handle a "negative" emotion is when you first begin to feel it. It's much more difficult to interrupt an emotional pattern once it's full-blown.
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“The truth is that nothing has to happen in order for you to feel good.”
“We all have an emotional home that we keep coming back to. Even if a foundationally angry or sad person has a good job and good family, they return to their emotional home, especially when experiencing life's inevitable setbacks.”
“Where focus goes, energy flows. And if you don't take the time to focus on what matters, then you're living a life of someone else's design.”
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“Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.”
“The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.”
“I was tormented with guilt for years and years. In fact, it was so bad that if I didn't feel wrong, I didn't feel right!”
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“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.”
“Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip.”
“I can't be a slave to the machine, you feel like you're in the matrix.”