Peter McWilliams
Peter McWilliams
Peter Alexander McWilliams was an American self-help author who advocated for the legalization of marijuana...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth5 August 1949
CountryUnited States of America
taken believe marijuana
I feel that I am entitled to take medicinal marijuana. In general, I believe that everyone who has a doctor's prescription is entitled to take marijuana. I, however, do not believe that my day in court should be taken from me, and that's essentially what's happening.
fear believe writing
Write 10 times: 'Fear is my friend. Fear is the energy to do my best in a new situation.' You don't have to believe it; just write it.
hate believe cynical
Prison is a crash course in the darker side of life. Few survive it without becoming a different person: more cynical, jaded, fearful, angry. Its hard to trust again, hard to believe, easy to hate a system that destroyed your life behind the pompous pretense of saving you from yourself, for your own good.
either fall fortitude glamour love opposed people succeed thinks understand writers
Everyone thinks they can be a writer. Most people don't understand what's involved. The real writers persevere. The ones that don't either don't have enough fortitude and they probably wouldn't succeed anyway, or they fall in love with the glamour of writing as opposed to the writing of writing.
coming dream lies visualize
To visualize is to see what is not there, what is not real -- a dream . To visualize is, in fact, to make visual lies . Visual lies, however, have a way of coming true.
far powerful
You are far more powerful than you ever dreamed.
negative positive produce thoughts
Positive thoughts have positive results. Negative thoughts produce negative results.
ask learn people precisely worst
Learn to ask for what you want... The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for-which is precisely where you were before you asked.
motivation mistake may
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
clever memories people
People who want to appear clever rely on memory. People who want to get things done make lists.
dragging expensive hence indulgence negative physically refer thinking
Negative thinking is always expensive -- dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically -- hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.
almost anytime life
We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose.
best energy fear friend gift learn ourselves
To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.
mistakes
Mistakes show us what we need to learn.